Moscow University
Anthropology
Bulletin
Anthropology
Bulletin
Lomonosov Moscow State University, Anuchin Research Institute and Museum of Anthropology, Mokhovaya st., 11, Moscow, 125009, Russia
Kharitonov V.M., e-mail: h1946v@yandex.ru
V.V. Bunak has made a great contribution to the development of evolutionary anthropology. He has created the original model of hominid evolution as a «bush» – famnogenesis with early divergence of relatively independent branches of hominid evolution. This model was opposed to the stadial model of anthropogenesis. He supposed that Neanderthal man had participated in the origin of modern human. As a result of V.V. Bunak’s great work, there are a lot of generalizations, concerning of skull morphology of fossil hominids and their ancestors in evolution. He explored the factors of human’s skull transformation in evolution. He has worked out the original theory of ecological factors in a bipedal hominid movement origin. He gave attention to the morphology of distal lower limb of early hominids. V.V. Bunak has created a theory of craniological polymorphism of Europe’s population in the Upper Paleolithic. Special attention V.V. Bunak paid to the human brain and its functions, higher nervous activity, the expression of emotions, the origin of human speech. Especial papers of V.V. Bunak dedicated to the brain endocasts of fossil hominids different antiquity. Finally, he has created an ingenious system of detailed classification of fossil and modern hominids.
V.V. Bunak, anthropogenesis, hominids, classification of hominids, bipedal hominid movement, the origin of speech, polymorphism of fossil Neoanthropes in the Upper Paleolithic
Цит.: Kharitonov V.M. V.V. Bunak and current problems for Evolutionary Anthropology. Own way in Evolutionary Anthropology // Moscow University Anthropology Bulletin (Vestnik Moskovskogo Universiteta. Seria XXIII. Antropologia), 2013; 1/2013; с. 43-51
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