Social: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 |
| Website | 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
Activities
Website authors are unpaid volunteers.[1] Alexander Sokolov, managed to recruit almost all active Russia n 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
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
- 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
- ↑ Смирнов И. (2011-11-17). "Портал "Антропогенез", первые шаги человеческого рода на экране компьютера". Радио Свобода. http://www.svoboda.org/content/transcript/24394720.html/.
- ↑ Анастасия Казанцева (2010-12-21). "Ничто человеческое им не чуждо". STRF.ru. http://www.strf.ru/material.aspx?CatalogId=222&d_no=35907.
- ↑ "Линуксоид как высшая ступень эволюции Homo sapiens". http://linuxformat.ru/download/137.pdf.
- ↑ Burlak, Svetlana (2011) (in ru). Происхождение языка. Факты, исследования, гипотезы.
- ↑ "Выставка "10 черепов, которые потрясли мир"". Наука и жизнь. 2014-02-23. http://www.nkj.ru/prtnews/23810/.
- ↑ "В Рунете появилась интерактивная карта останков древних гоминид". Polit.ru. 2011-10-03. http://polit.ru/news/2011/10/03/antropogenez_ru/.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Александр Соколов (2012-10-09). "Наука о прошлом стремительно несется в будущее… Надо догонять". Троицкий вариант — Наука. http://trv-science.ru/2012/10/09/nauka-o-proshlom-stremitelno-nesetsya-v-budushhee-nado-dogonyat/.
- ↑ Кириллов, Алексей (2018-04-28). "Учёные против мифов". http://erazvitie.org/article/ychenie_protiv_mifov.
- ↑ ""Ученые против мифов" и "Чудо техники" получили премию "За верность науке"". https://nauka.tass.ru/nauka/4933359.
- ↑ "Станислав Дробышевский и "Учёные против мифов" стали лауреатами премии "За верность науке"" (in ru-RU). https://antropogenez.ru/single-news/article/700/.
- ↑ "В Москве вручили премию "За верность науке"" (in ru). 6 February 2018. https://rg.ru/2018/02/06/v-moskve-vruchili-premiiu-za-vernost-nauke.html.
- ↑ "Объявлены обладатели премии «За верность науке-2017»" (in ru). https://indicator.ru/engineering-science/za-vernost-nauke-2017-06-02-2018.htm.
- ↑ "Названы лауреаты VII Всероссийской премии "За верность науке"" (in ru). 2021-11-28. https://minobrnauki.gov.ru/press-center/news/?ELEMENT_ID=43988.
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