Stanislav Drobyshevsky
Stanislav Vladimirovich Drobyshevsky is a Russian anthropologist and science popularizer. He is a Candidate of Sciences and works at the Anthropology department of the Faculty of Biology of Moscow State University. He is a scientific editor of the popular science portal Antropogenez.ru. His body of work includes monographs, university textbooks, and popular science books. He is a vlogger and YouTuber. He also frequently appears in other Russian popular science channels.
Education
He studied at the MSU Faculty of Biology as an undergraduate in 1995-2000, and as a graduate student in 2000-2004. After getting a Candidate's degree in 2004, he has been working at the Anthropology Department of that faculty.He created university courses in human evolution, anthropology, archaeology, and race science.
Science communication
Non-missing link
In addition to his editorial activities, Drobyshevsky is actively working on his own project Non-missing Link. It is a series of articles where he discusses his views of the problems and methods of anthropology. The articles are illustrated by a series of short videos in which Drobyshevsky talks about the scientific method of studying human nature. For example, using copies of fossil skulls and skeletons, he discusses what specific parts of the skeleton are called, what the limits are of their variability within a species, which pathologies they can have, what functions they perform, which regions of the brain are responsible for them, how they are different or similar in humans and apes, and how they evolved.In 2017, the series of articles was published as a two-volume book Non-missing link.