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Stanislav Drobyshevsky's course "From the Big Bang to Humans" https://videoknigi.com/human
Today, humans remain unique, but previously, several human species coexisted. Anthropologist Stanislav Drobyshevsky discusses what helped our ancestors succeed and why alternative lineages died out.
This lecture was recorded in Tver in April 2026. Timings:

00:00 Why Our Ancestors Are Losers
01:56 Purgatorius, Tree Shrews, and Colugos
06:28 Plesiadapis: Why It Extinct
09:54 Predators Accelerate Selection
12:22 Lorises and Tarsiers
16:40 Why Omomys and Not Adapis
19:34 Cold Weather
22:33 Eosimias: A True Ape
23:06 Primates Are Increasing
26:19 The Traveling Ape
31:07 Parapithecus: No Mutation
33:11 The Ape with a Cat's Brain
35:58 Killer Cats
38:44 Saadanius: The Last Common Ancestor
41:12 The Rise of the Monkeys
47:51 The Unlucky Pliopithecus
51:07 First Great Ape
53:05 Lost Tail
56:51 Haste Makes Evolution Laugh
01:00:51 Proconsul: 130 Grams of Brains
01:05:30 Sahelanthropus Retires to the Savannah
01:09:35 Brains, Meat, and Work!
01:13:20 Are We the Pinnacle of Evolution?
01:18:19 Questions: Are Cats Our Enemies?
01:19:12 How Long Did Neanderthals Live?
01:20:03 Why Can People Hold Their Breath?
01:21:30 How to Fight Pseudoscience?
01:22:39 Where Are We Evolving?
01:23:48 Elves, Orcs, and Dwarves?
01:24:18 Who Will Replace Humans?
01:25:04 Why did monkeys abandon their instincts?
01:27:35 Are you planning on getting a PhD?
01:28:55 How long ago did other human species become extinct?
01:30:31 What should be changed first in humans?
01:31:45 What are the prospects for cyborgization?
01:34:09 Who else has lost their tails?