Type of site | popular science |
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Available in | Russian |
Owner | Alexander Sokolov |
Created by | Alexander Sokolov, Stanislav Drobyshevsky |
URL | http://antropogenez.ru/ |
Antropogenez.ru is a Russian popular science website about human evolution. It was launched in 2010 by Alexander Sokolov and Stanislav Drobyshevsky.
Website authors are unpaid volunteers. [1] Alexander Sokolov, managed to recruit almost all active Russian anthropologists [2] The site publishes popular science articles about origins and evolution of humankind. [3] This website, together with Elementy.ru, popularizes the results of latest research on origins of humans, human intellect, and language. [4]
In March 2014, the website together with State Biological Museum, organized an exhibition 10 Skulls That Shook The World. It exhibited precise copies of the most notable paleoanthropological finds. A series of lectures by prominent Russian scientists was held on the opening of the exhibition. [5]
The website implemented a number of projects on cataloging a processing scientific data. An interactive Map of Human Ancestors was made with Google Maps [6] and includes the locations of discoveries of the most important hominid fossils. [7] Other projects are Catalog of Fossils, an interactive diagram Hominid Brain Volume, and a series of short videos Non-Missing Link. The purposes of the website sections Scientist and Media and Criticism are the protection of scientists’ reputation and publishing the reviews of popular pseudoscientific books. [7]
Since 2016, a popular science forum Scientists against Myths is organized twice a year in Moscow (in MISiS university) or St. Petersburg. [8] Its purposes are popularization of science and debunking quackery. The same year, Antropogenez.ru and Evolution fund created a satiric prize Honorary Academician of Lying Academy of Pseudoscience, which is “awarded” during the forum. In 2021, the pseudo-medicine nominations were split into a separate prize called Academy of Preventive Chakra Surgery.