Dirming up link. Book One. Monkeys and all-all-all

Who was the immediate ancestor of man? What does the chain look like at the end of which Homo sapiens is located, and is all its links in place? Why do some finds are not what they seem at first? And why did the hominids, and not other mammals became reasonable?
“Goting link” - the history of the origin of a person in two books - answers in detail and fascinatingly to these and other burning questions about our past. The leading Russian anthropologist, scientific editor of the Anthropogenesis.ru portal and the brilliant lecturer Stanislav Drobyshevsky know more about this, more than any other living descendant of paleoanthropes, and as no one else knows how to infect a modern, rapidly developing science that is directly related to Each of us.
The first book is devoted to those who have contributed to the formation of our species long before we stood on our feet, straightened our shoulders and grew the brain