Antropogenez.ru
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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.
History[edit]
Activities[edit]
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]
Projects[edit]
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] It's 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.
Awards[edit]
- 2017 — prize For Loyalty to Science (first place in category Best Popular Science Project of the Year as one of the organizers of Scientists against Myths forum.[9][10][11][12]
- 2021 — prize For Loyalty to Science (finalist in category Best Popular Science Project of the Year as one of the organizers of Scientists against Myths forum.[13]
References[edit]
- ^ Смирнов И. (2011-11-17). "Портал "Антропогенез", первые шаги человеческого рода на экране компьютера". Радио Свобода. Archived from the original on 2014-04-28. Retrieved 2014-04-28.
- ^ Анастасия Казанцева (2010-12-21). "Ничто человеческое им не чуждо". STRF.ru. Archived from the original on 2014-04-25. Retrieved 2014-04-24.
- ^ "Линуксоид как высшая ступень эволюции Homo sapiens" (PDF).
- ^ Burlak, Svetlana (2011). Происхождение языка. Факты, исследования, гипотезы [The origin of language. Facts, research, hypotheses] (in Russian).
- ^ "Выставка "10 черепов, которые потрясли мир"". Наука и жизнь. 2014-02-23. Archived from the original on 2014-04-27. Retrieved 2014-05-05.
- ^ "В Рунете появилась интерактивная карта останков древних гоминид". Polit.ru. 2011-10-03.
- ^ a b Александр Соколов (2012-10-09). "Наука о прошлом стремительно несется в будущее… Надо догонять". Троицкий вариант — Наука. Archived from the original on 2014-04-29. Retrieved 2014-05-06.
- ^ Кириллов, Алексей (2018-04-28). "Учёные против мифов". eRazvitie.org. Archived from the original on 28 May 2023. Retrieved 2023-09-17.
- ^ ""Ученые против мифов" и "Чудо техники" получили премию "За верность науке"". ТАСС. Archived from the original on 2020-10-01. Retrieved 2020-11-24.
- ^ "Станислав Дробышевский и "Учёные против мифов" стали лауреатами премии "За верность науке"". Antropogenez.ru (in Russian). Archived from the original on 2020-10-24. Retrieved 2020-11-24.
- ^ "В Москве вручили премию "За верность науке"". Российская газета (in Russian). 6 February 2018. Archived from the original on 2021-11-29. Retrieved 2020-11-24.
- ^ "Объявлены обладатели премии «За верность науке-2017»". indicator.ru (in Russian). Archived from the original on 2020-12-05. Retrieved 2020-11-24.
- ^ "Названы лауреаты VII Всероссийской премии "За верность науке"". Минобрнауки России (in Russian). 2021-11-28. Archived from the original on 2021-11-29. Retrieved 2021-11-29.