The origin of animals and humans. Agol I.I.

The reader’s attention is proposed to the book of the famous Soviet biologist and philosopher I. I. Agola, in which the issues of the theory of evolution are outlined in a popular form. The reader will get acquainted in detail with evidence of evolution (including the witnesses of embryology and paleontology), learn about the role of heredity, variability, natural and artificial selection in the evolutionary process. The final chapters tell about the origin of man and his oldest ancestors.

The book, first published more than 70 years ago, was written in an accessible language and contains a large number of illustrations. It will cause interest both among professional biologists, philosophers and historians of science, and in a wide range of readers.