On February 3, anthropologist Stanislav Drobyshevsky will give a popular science lecture at the Milmax Science lecture hall in the Idea Innovation Technopark in Kazan.
Stanislav Vladimirovich Drobyshevsky is a Russian paleoanthropologist and popularizer of the scientific worldview. Candidate of Biological Sciences, Associate Professor of the Department of Anthropology at Lomonosov Moscow State University. Scientific editor of popular science portal Anthropogenesis.ru. Writer, author of scientific and popular science books, textbooks for students and scientific monographs. Author of scientific periodicals. Video blogger, Youtube channel creator.
From Stanislav Drobyshevsky’s interview with the Postnauka Publishers: “What is the question nagging at you as a specialist, which you would like to be answered by someone? — First: what happened 7–10 million years ago in Africa? Second: what happened 2-3 million years ago in Africa? And third: what happened 50-100 thousand years ago - also in Africa. The first episode is the time when our ancestors began to climb down from trees. This is a very important period from which anthropologists have some teeth, but no complete skeletons. I want a complete, life-size skeleton to be found somewhere. The second episode is the time when Australopithecus became people, Homo. Again, we have got teeth and even a skeleton, but it is not complete and undescribed. The third period is the emergence of Homo sapiens, like our own selves; 50 thousand years ago they were already completely sapiens, 100 thousand years ago not quite yet, and this interval is very interesting. Again, there are a lot of teeth, but there is no such thing as a full-length skeleton yet.”
Full version: https://postnauka.org/talks/100967
Announcement of a lecture in Kazan on February 3, 2024 at 05:00 p.m.: “Tales from the Grotto”
When civilization had not yet trampled greenery into concrete and had not yet covered palm trees under greenhouse caps, people roamed the vast expanses of the planet. They made beads from mammoth tusks and told myths about geese who created the land. They played flutes made from bird bones and hunted cave bears. The knew no boundaries. They sailed across seas, crashed through the sweltering jungles of Java and across the blinding deserts of Australia. They decorated their faces with scars and gave the girls necklaces made of deer tusks. Their life was harsh and beautiful. Freedom lived in their souls. They couldn't read and remembered everything by heart. All we know about them is thanks to science and in our Golden Age we yearn for the lost past. Our past is a thing of the past. No one living today has seen Australopithecus and Pithecanthropus, no one knows when and who started a first fire, no one was present at shamanic dances under cave roofs in the Ice Age. So how do we know about them? Are the annals of history really that incomplete? Or maybe, on the contrary, everything has already been written down in books, and future generations just have to read dusty tomes, with no hope of learning anything new? Have all the discoveries already been made? You will learn about this and much more from the lecture by Stanislav Drobyshevsky.
The lecture will take place in the Idea Technopark at: 50k1 Petersburgskaya St, Kazan.
