Man Walks the Earth

Anatoly DEREVIANKO

In evolutionary studies there is no question which causes more emotional debate than the issue of human origin and evolution. In fact it is quite natural, because these issues carry “personal” interest. Humans have always set themselves off from all other living beings. Many people who generally accepted the concepts of the evolutionary model of development contested the idea of an evolutionary lineage of humans because this lineage implied a relationship to apes

However, beyond religious and philosophical arguments, the issues of human origin, which have challenged scientists and all of mankind for hundreds of years, are probably not so sophisticated as the origin of life in general. These two basic problems are equally important. On the one hand, a human being is at the top of the evolution of organic living creatures on the Earth. On the other hand, the expansion of humans over the planet has signified a new, anthropogenic period in the development of the living and non-living biosphere on the “conquered” territory, humans having been the driving force of the evolutionary process.

Scientific data on the complex and multifactor problem of anthropogenesis, which have been accumulated over the past 200 years, are truly abundant. Let us consider the opinions expressed below as a short anthropological synopsis...

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