Evolution. Classical ideas in the light of new discoveries

What is benefit? How does an accidental mutation turn outsiders into prosperous winners? What is more important for evolution - war or cooperation?

The book of Alexander Markov and Elena Naimark talks about the latest studies of molecular geneticists and finds of paleontologists who give answers to these and many other questions about modifications in nature. Thousands of discoveries committed since the time of Darwin confirm the guesses of the ancestors of the theory of evolution; New data do not destroy the foundations of evolutionary theory, but on the contrary, only strengthen them.

Alexander Markov, Head of the Department of Biophant of the Biofac MSU, and Elena Naimark, a leading researcher at the Paleontological Institute. A. A. Borisyak, - famous scientists and popularizers of science. The two-volume “Evolution of man” (2011), written by them in co-authorship, has become a table book not only for students and scientists-biologists, but also for many people outside the professional community.