Stanislav Drobyshevsky
Stanislav Vladimirovich Drobyshevsky (born 2 July 1978, Chita) is a Russian anthropologist and science popularizer. He is a Candidate of Sciences and works at the Anthropology department of the Faculty of Biology of Moscow State University. He is a scientific editor of the popular science portal "Antropogenez.ru". His body of work includesmonographs, university textbooks, and popular science books. He is a vlogger and has his personal YouTube channel, in addition to frequently appearing in other Russian popular science channels. Education. He studied at the MSU Faculty of Biology as a student in 1995-2000, and as an aspirant  in 2000-2004. After getting if candidate degree in 2004, he has been working at the Anthropology department of that faculty. He created university courses in anthropology, archeology, and human evolution. Science. In his monograph "The Evolution of Hominid Craniometric Characteristics (Canonical Analysis)", he demonstrated the unevenness of evolution of different parts of the skull, determined by the pace and direction of evolutionary changes. One of his main ideas is that human races should be treated as extremely close biological categories, the differences between which reflect only local adaptations or are the result of random genetic processes, while small local  races are much more specialized and have moved further away from ancestral condition than major races. In his monograph "Evolution of the human brain", he developed a theory about the acceleration of the evolution of the brain of human ancestors due to the transition to meat eating. In his articles and interviews Drobyshevsky often criticizes the negative impact of scientific myths and pseudoscientific theories of the human origin and evolution on mass consciousness. Drobyshevsky's articles on anthropogenesis are published in popular science periodicals like Vokrug sveta, Tekhnika Molodezhi, Nauka i Zhizn. Science communication. Antropogenez.ru. In 2011, together with science  journalist Alexander Sokolov, he created a popular science portal Antropogenez.ru, dedicated to popularizing scientific knowledge about the origin and history of the human species and refuting topics such as racism and creationism. The portal is intended to unite the efforts of scientists from various fields: anthropology, genetics, archeology, paleontology, linguistics, etc. Drobyshevsky has been the permanent scientific editor of the portal since its inception. Drobyshevsky and other contributors of Antropogenez.ru frequently draw attention to misinterpretation of science and blatant pseudoscience in Russian media. Non-missing link. In addition to his editorial activities, Drobyshevsky is actively working on his own project  Non-missing Link. It is a series of articles where he explains the problems and methods of anthropology. The articles are illustrated by a series of short videos in which Drobyshevsky explains the scientific method of studying human nature. For example, using copies of fossil skulls and skeletons, he explains what specific parts of the skeleton are called, what are the limits of their variability within a species, which pathologies they can have, what functions they perform, which regions of the brain are responsible for them, how they are different or similar in humans and apes, and how they evolved . In 2017, the series of articles was published as a two-volume book "Non-missing link". In media. Drobyshevsky frequently appears on radio and television. Since March 15, 2021, he has been hosting "Homo Sapiens" program on RTVI. Awards. Drobyshevsky was awarded a prize "For loyalty to science" by Russian Ministry of Education and Science as "Popularizer of the year" 2017.