The Missing Link. Book 2: People

Brilliant humor, a polished style, ease of presentation even of the most complex scientific material, an enormous number of interesting facts and reliable stories—this audiobook will answer all your questions about the evolution and development of life on Earth.

Starting with the first publication of Charles Darwin’s book “On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection,” scientists began arguing about the “missing link”—the intermediate form between apes and humans. Those debates haven’t stopped to this day. Drobyshevsky shows that there is no point in looking for the “missing link,” because it has already been found—and not just once. Tracing the history of how humans emerged from the first cells, the author shows by what laws life on Earth developed, what influenced different evolutionary choices, and ultimately explains why we and the world around us are exactly the way they are. How did the nervous system and sight arise? How did the skeleton and brain appear? How did ears, legs, and fur come about? How did lungs develop and the tail fall away? What in us is ape-like, and what distinguishes us from apes?