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Subscribe to the channel ► / @rbctrends What mistakes of anthropologists still live in school textbooks? Why is it so difficult to distinguish the collarbone of an ancient man from the rib of a dolphin? And is it true that the author of the most shocking forgery in the history of anthropology was Sir Arthur Conan Doyle himself? In the new "Tolka", candidate of biological sciences, anthropologist and scientific editor of the portal "Antropogenesis.ru" Stanislav Drobyshevsky tells what high-profile finds during investigations and rechecks turned out to be not so ancient, analyzes the most famous embarrassments of anthropologists and clarifies what consequences they could have had or did have. Watch, share your opinions in the comments and support the new issue with likes. Timeline: 00:00 - Intro 00:38 - How scientists corrected themselves and again classified Sahelanthropus as an upright person 02:07 - How scientists were wrong about the origin of gibbons 04:51 - The story of the most famous anthropological fake 08:27 - Why does even the Unified State Exam still contain an erroneous question about the ancient ancestors of man? 10:40 - How the erroneous concept of human evolution ended up in textbooks 14:09 - How an Australopithecus collarbone was confused with a dolphin rib 15:59 - What happens when anthropologists mistake wishful thinking for reality 18:13 - How anthropologists' mistakes can affect other related sciences for decades 21:28 - Why the loss of unique finds saddens anthropologists even more than mistakes 22:29 - Conclusions #rbktrends #robyshevsky #anthropology RBC Trends ► https://www.rbc.ru/trends Telegram ► https://t.me/rbc_trends Zen ► https://zen.yandex.ru/rbc_trends Vkontakte ► https://vk.com/rbc_trends