Many Russians who are interested in human evolution are familiar with the name of Stanislav Vladimirovich Drobyshevsky. This is a well-known anthropologist and teacher, scientific editor of the Anthropogenesis.ru educational portal, author of many textbooks and monographs for students. His life and work will be discussed in the article.
Biography
Stanislav Vladimirovich Drobyshevsky was born in Siberian Chita on 1978-02-07. He spent his childhood in this city. The parents of the future anthropologist, Vladimir Stanislavovich and Lyubov Alekseevna, were graduates of the Faculty of Philosophy of Leningrad State University and worked as teachers at the universities of Chita.
Already at the age of five, Stanislav became interested in the history of the origin of man, read out the children's book "Paleontology in Pictures". While studying in high school, the boy participated in most olympiads and won prizes. In the eleventh grade, he won the regional Olympiad in biology, and in all of Siberia he took fifth place.
In 1995, Drobyshevsky graduated from Chita School No. 12 with a silver medal. And in thisIn the same year he went to Moscow to enter Moscow State University. He was taken to the Department of Anthropology of the Faculty of Biology. The young man studied well and graduated with the highest score.
Career
After receiving a diploma, Stanislav Vladimirovich Drobyshevsky continued his studies at the graduate school of the Biological Faculty of Moscow State University. In 2002-03 the young anthropologist received a nominal government scholarship. In January 2004, he successfully defended his dissertation and became a candidate of biological sciences.
Since December 2003, Stanislav Vladimirovich Drobyshevsky worked as a senior laboratory assistant at the Department of Anthropology at Moscow State University. In August 2005, he was hired as a department assistant.
Since 2011, Drobyshevsky became an assistant professor at the Department of Anthropology at the Biological Faculty of Moscow State University, where he still works.
Scientific activities and publications
Stanislav Vladimirovich is the author of many lectures and training courses on anthropogenesis, anthropology and archeology for students. In addition, he is the author and co-author of a number of articles that are devoted to the evolution of the brain, the analysis of data from the craniology of fossil hominids, the development of adaptive types.
In his 2007 monograph "The Evolution of the Human Brain", the scientist substantiated the theory that the development of the brain of our ancestors accelerated due to the fact that they switched to meat.
In interviews and articles, Stanislav Vladimirovich Drobyshevsky quite often touches on the negative impact on people's minds of all kinds of near-scientific myths and alternative theories of originand human evolution.
The scientist's articles on anthropogenesis are published in many popular science publications, such as "Around the World", "Nature", "Science and Life", "Technology for Youth". In addition, books by Stanislav Vladimirovich Drobyshevsky are very popular among anthropology lovers. The most famous of them are "Tales from the Grotto", "Retrieving Link", "Battles of Anthropologists".
Archaeological field work
Since 1997, the scientist has been participating in anthropological expeditions and excavations. Stanislav Vladimirovich Drobyshevsky conducts cephalometric, morphometric and morphoscopic examinations of people, is engaged in the initial processing of expeditionary materials. In total, he measured and systematized the data of about two thousand modern and fossil skulls.
In 1999, the anthropologist took part in excavations in the Stavropol city of Ipatovo. In 2000, Stanislav Vladimirovich Drobyshevsky was part of a complex expedition near the village of Arkhipo-Osipovka in the Krasnodar Territory.
In 2001-03 participated in the excavations of the Upper Paleolithic and Mesolithic sites in the Moscow region. In 2004-08 was at the excavations of the ancient Greek Artesian, a settlement and a necropolis in the Crimea, west of Kerch; Paleolithic site in Altai, in Denisova Cave; as well as in the Moscow Kremlin, Chobruchi, Veliky Novgorod, Betovo, Voitenki and other places.
Anthropogenesis.ru
In 2010, Stanislav Vladimirovich Drobyshevsky and science journalist Alexander BorisovichSokolov launched a scientific and educational portal dedicated to popularizing knowledge about the origin and history of man and refuting common misconceptions. "Anthropogenesis.ru" unites the efforts of specialists from different fields of science: genetics, anthropology, archeology, linguistics, paleontology, etc.
The idea to create such a project belongs to Alexander Sokolov, who, in the course of analyzing information circulating on television and on the Internet, came to the conclusion that very few scientists are engaged in education and are trying to counter the spread of pseudoscientific myths in the network and the media. The journalist asked Drobyshevsky for support, and their joint initiative led to the creation of the Anthropogenesis.ru portal.
Now there are about thirty experts and corresponding authors in the project. Stanislav Vladimirovich has been its permanent scientific editor since the foundation of the portal. He and other enthusiasts urge the public to monitor the quality of information and be responsible for the free interpretation of scientific facts and their deliberate distortion for the sake of sensation and financial gain. First of all, this applies to TV shows, TV channels and books that claim to be scientific, but in fact have nothing to do with science.
Currently
In addition to editorial activities, the scientist is working on an author's project called "The Extracting Link". This is a series of articles about the tasks, problems and methods of anthropology.
All articles are duplicated by short videos in which DrobyshevskyAn example of models of skeletons and skulls shows and explains the names of certain parts of the skeleton, how a person differs from a monkey and how similar to it, what functions of the body are responsible for different parts of the brain, etc. These videos are available on the Youtube channel.
In 2017, based on the author's project, the two-volume book "The Retrieving Link" was released.
Stanislav Vladimirovich Drobyshevsky often speaks on television and radio, popularizes science among people who do not have a special biological education.
As for the scientist's personal life, in 2006 he married a girl named Inga Masliy. The couple has two children: son Vladimir, born in 2007, and daughter Maria, born in 2009.
