Strange monkey. Where did the wool go and why people are of different colors
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When and why did our ancestors lose their wool? And really lost? Why are we not naked and not water, but rather sweating monkeys? How many extravagant hypotheses were proposed to explain our hairlessness, and why did the question remain open? What about human evolution can lice and fleas tell? How did the skin color change during evolution: our ancestors are brightened or darkened? Or maybe at first they darkened, and then brightened? What was all this Czech and what did the Neanderthals have to do with it? Why are the blue eyes of the lemors, and Lysin - macaques? And is it true that the beard does not attract women, but frightens men? In his book, the editor of the portal Anthropogenesis.ru Alexander Sokolov tells about this and much more, once again proving that science is amazingly interesting and sometimes paradoxically.
Quotes
"Man is really one of the rarest -haired primates, but this is how to look. For example, the hair density on the head of people is noticeably higher than that of chimpanzees and orangutans, and slightly loses to gorillas. The breasts of a person and gorillas are equally scarce with hair, and the human back was particularly disappointing: nor a hairs of Homo sapiens examined. However, having visited the Black Sea beaches, I can say responsibly: “You were not looking for, Mr. Schulz!” "
"Curious hypothesis. But it’s even more curious that the beard does not help at all in fights, but on the contrary, it interferes! Is it because she was also banned in the rules of boxing? After all, the enemy can easily grab the protruding part of his face, like the biblical JoB, who pulled Amesai by the beard and struck his sword in the stomach.
"But the most interesting opening was ahead. In 1923, the American Harry Stenbok showed that to obtain a "anti -rachite" effect, it is enough to irradiate food with ultraviolet. For half an hour, Stenbok was holding the same porridge under the quartz lamp, which led to rickets at rats in the experiments of McCallum. The rated mixture of rats received normally. Experiments have shown that healing properties gain milk milk, flour and spinach (since then, the sale of milk enriched with vitamin D described in the described method has entered the USA) Alfred Hess went further: he fed 1 g of calf or - drum fraction daily! - human skin. "
To be honest, a couple of years ago after reading this and other articles, I had a kind of “ovidnyak”. I just bored read the book by Svante PEAB “Neanderthal. In search of disappeared genomes about the successes in the field of Paleogenetics. And then the image of the Neanderthal - red -haired, fair -skinned one who began to gain flesh - again faded. "
"The authors concluded that dark leather is a sign acquired by our initially fair -skinned ancestors ... At this place, racists should joyfully slam, but I ask you to read the phrase to the end: dark leather is a sign acquired by our initially fair -skinned ancestors about 2 million years ago When they lost the protective hair. "
"Scientists were not satisfied with simple polls - this is boring. It is much more interesting to organize a witty experiment. In one study, volunteers - boys and girls - molested passers -by on the street with a request to exchange money. The focus is that the volunteers put on alternately light and dark wigs. The experimenters expected that the fair -haired people would find a greater response. However, the subjects did not care what color the hair is at the bastard of a passerby. "
For whom
For lovers of evolution, paleontology, anthropology, archeology, genetics, history of science
Expert reviews
Among the abundance of popular science works "Strange Monkey" is a valuable find that can be recommended to everyone - bald and hairy, mustachioed and bearded, dark -skinned and pale -skinned. Do you know a lot of books about how a person was left without wool and why people with different color of their skin, eyes and hair are walking around the planet? These are complex scientific issues, but the author’s whip and witty language guarantees that you do not get bored during reading.
Alexey Vodovozov, doctor, scientific journalist
I would never have thought that you can write a whole book about the evolution of human hair and skin color. Moreover, not a textbook for narrow specialists, but an easy and interesting popular-popular text that allows the curious readers to get acquainted with such riddles of science, the existence of which they may not have even suspected. It turns out that an incredible number of research is devoted to human hair and pigmentation. Anthropologists, genetics, and physiologists tried. Alexander Sokolov gathered it all together and laid out on the shelves: here are the facts, here are hypotheses, but myths. I recommend the book to everyone who is interested in the connection of modern man with his past.
Alexander Panchin, bioinformatics, candidate of biological sciences, laureate of the Enlightener Prize for the Book "Summer of Biotechnology"
About the author
Alexander Sokolov was born in 1975 in Leningrad. He graduated with honors from St. Petersburg State University with a degree in Applied Mathematics. Scientific journalist, teacher, organizer of educational forums "Scientists against myths", creator and permanent editor of the portal Anthropogenesis.ru
Quotes
"Man is really one of the rarest -haired primates, but this is how to look. For example, the hair density on the head of people is noticeably higher than that of chimpanzees and orangutans, and slightly loses to gorillas. The breasts of a person and gorillas are equally scarce with hair, and the human back was particularly disappointing: nor a hairs of Homo sapiens examined. However, having visited the Black Sea beaches, I can say responsibly: “You were not looking for, Mr. Schulz!” "
"Curious hypothesis. But it’s even more curious that the beard does not help at all in fights, but on the contrary, it interferes! Is it because she was also banned in the rules of boxing? After all, the enemy can easily grab the protruding part of his face, like the biblical JoB, who pulled Amesai by the beard and struck his sword in the stomach.
"But the most interesting opening was ahead. In 1923, the American Harry Stenbok showed that to obtain a "anti -rachite" effect, it is enough to irradiate food with ultraviolet. For half an hour, Stenbok was holding the same porridge under the quartz lamp, which led to rickets at rats in the experiments of McCallum. The rated mixture of rats received normally. Experiments have shown that healing properties gain milk milk, flour and spinach (since then, the sale of milk enriched with vitamin D described in the described method has entered the USA) Alfred Hess went further: he fed 1 g of calf or - drum fraction daily! - human skin. "
To be honest, a couple of years ago after reading this and other articles, I had a kind of “ovidnyak”. I just bored read the book by Svante PEAB “Neanderthal. In search of disappeared genomes about the successes in the field of Paleogenetics. And then the image of the Neanderthal - red -haired, fair -skinned one who began to gain flesh - again faded. "
"The authors concluded that dark leather is a sign acquired by our initially fair -skinned ancestors ... At this place, racists should joyfully slam, but I ask you to read the phrase to the end: dark leather is a sign acquired by our initially fair -skinned ancestors about 2 million years ago When they lost the protective hair. "
"Scientists were not satisfied with simple polls - this is boring. It is much more interesting to organize a witty experiment. In one study, volunteers - boys and girls - molested passers -by on the street with a request to exchange money. The focus is that the volunteers put on alternately light and dark wigs. The experimenters expected that the fair -haired people would find a greater response. However, the subjects did not care what color the hair is at the bastard of a passerby. "
For whom
For lovers of evolution, paleontology, anthropology, archeology, genetics, history of science
Expert reviews
Among the abundance of popular science works "Strange Monkey" is a valuable find that can be recommended to everyone - bald and hairy, mustachioed and bearded, dark -skinned and pale -skinned. Do you know a lot of books about how a person was left without wool and why people with different color of their skin, eyes and hair are walking around the planet? These are complex scientific issues, but the author’s whip and witty language guarantees that you do not get bored during reading.
Alexey Vodovozov, doctor, scientific journalist
I would never have thought that you can write a whole book about the evolution of human hair and skin color. Moreover, not a textbook for narrow specialists, but an easy and interesting popular-popular text that allows the curious readers to get acquainted with such riddles of science, the existence of which they may not have even suspected. It turns out that an incredible number of research is devoted to human hair and pigmentation. Anthropologists, genetics, and physiologists tried. Alexander Sokolov gathered it all together and laid out on the shelves: here are the facts, here are hypotheses, but myths. I recommend the book to everyone who is interested in the connection of modern man with his past.
Alexander Panchin, bioinformatics, candidate of biological sciences, laureate of the Enlightener Prize for the Book "Summer of Biotechnology"
About the author
Alexander Sokolov was born in 1975 in Leningrad. He graduated with honors from St. Petersburg State University with a degree in Applied Mathematics. Scientific journalist, teacher, organizer of educational forums "Scientists against myths", creator and permanent editor of the portal Anthropogenesis.ru
Author:
Author:Sokolov A.
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Cover:Hard
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- Category:Comics and Graphic Novels
- Category:Science & Math
- Category:Reference books
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Publication Language:Russian
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Age restrictions:12+
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ISBN:978-5-00139-302-3
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