The book is addressed to those who do not boil with indignation when they say that man came from a monkey, the Talented popularizer of science Lev Shilnyk believes; to doubt this today is as indecent as in the sphericity of the Earth..... Are you interested in the vicissitudes of this difficult process? Are you interested in a clever balance of innate and acquired stereotypes of behavior of primates and humans? This book will give you the opportunity to learn more about the biography of Homo sapiens, to clearly see how it all began, what led to and how it will end. Day of a wide range of readers . [ “There is no dispute, from time to time “man” really sounds proud, but it is only necessary to take a look at the history of the human race, as the delights will immediately decrease. The great proletarian writer and founder of socialist realism was still too optimistic. Cannibalism, human sacrifice, the brutal persecution of infidels, the bonfires of the Holy Inquisition, the extermination of entire peoples, local and world wars, monstrous social experiments this is not a complete list of the atrocities of the genus Homo. The righteous, the ascetic, and the unmercenary have all been in all ages, yet they do not make the weather. The ball has always been ruled by profiteers and crooks of all stripes, pulling out the weak sprouts of altruism with the root ..... In the competition, the success of Homo sapiens is undeniable . His aggressiveness, exceptional ingenuity and striking plasticity have always been above all praise. After all, it is almost the only species (among large vertebrates) that has managed to occupy all ecological niches on the planet. After walking boldly through our little ball, Homo sapiens left no chance for his brothers. So Lev Shilnyk, a writer, a popularizer of science, a man of broad erudition and deep natural science education, begins his book “The Intelligent Animal . Picnic of marginals on the sidelines of evolution". There is no more interesting subject for a person to study than himself .. And such a topic as the biography of Homo sapiens, in recent years, has again become a field of fierce debate and even the subject of litigation. The story of an unwise girl who, at the instigation of her father, sued either the Ministry of Education, or the authors of a biology textbook, or Darwin himself, has not yet faded from memory. The girl, by the way, found a lot of sympathizers . It is understandable: the vast majority of citizens stubbornly do not want to come from a monkey. And it is not known to these citizens that to doubt the monkey appearance of our ancestors today is simply indecent. It cannot be ,. Really , going to ignore the richest arsenal of facts and irrefutable evidence base of archeology Anthropology , Biology , Medical , Genetics , Linguistics , behaviorism and many related sciences! Yes, science! It is only worth a little “cross” a person , and you will find no difficulty in hiding at the bottom of the soul of the beast. Lev Shilnyk did this work for us - he "scratched" a person . And before the readers opened the richest workshop of nature and evolution these blind designers who created Homo sapiens from marginal elements that have languished on the sidelines of the evolutionary process. The man turned out to be windy like a vervet, and jealous like a baboon .. Its female is hypersexual (and therefore people mate not only for the purpose of fertilization). He is characterized by cannibalism - his tribesmen he used to eat often and with pleasure .. But the fact that humans kill each other more often than any other animal species is an indisputable fact. A word to the author: “The trouble is that man has evolved too quickly . Slow nature simply did not have time to properly fend off its next creation .. Accustomed to the method of trial and error, she naively believed that she had eternity ahead of her. When the intelligent two-legged primate guessed to arm himself with a sharp stone, mastered the fire and spoke, the genetic fullness of the population receded into the background. Sociality has become a power to trample on biology . Earned completely different, previously unknown factors, and the first among equals was, of course, articulate speech. Speech has unusually expanded the adaptive capabilities of our distant ancestors, allowing us to transmit from generation to generation a large amount of information. The intelligent man was largely freed from the rigid pressure of selection and immediately surrounded himself with a second, man-made nature, where completely different patterns worked. But nothing is given for free .. Man continues to be an ordinary creature of nature, like the infusoria of a shoe or a sheep, although he claims leadership. Biology has not gone away. Nothing can be acquired without losing, and the history of the genus Homo is the best confirmation of this. Revolting against the dictates of natural selection, man has put obstacles in the way of biological evolution. And what happened? Man, having fenced off culture from nature, came out somehow ridiculous . Not a crown of creation, but a formative marginality.". It's true, but it's true.... The bitter truth, which is still better than sweet lies . Those who prefer the truth, or rather the truth, and addressed the book of Shilnik .. Publishing house “ENAS” released it in the series “Homo incognitus”, which means “man unknown” Released in the hope that the time of knowledge is not over and Homo sapiens, striving for knowledge, has not translated on our planet.