The mystery of man's uniqueness

This essay falls into the field of cultural and philosophical anthropology. The author distinguishes three stages in which the unique character of the animal species of man was formed. The first phase (7–2.5 million years) starts with the separation of the lineages of hominids and anthropoids. The second stage, called proto-cultural (2.5m – 40,000 years), is marked by great dynamism of the development of man, resulting in the beginning of cultural evolution. Biological evolution has finished and the genome has been fixed. Man begins to create all culture from the sources provided by evolution. That is the distinguishing mark of the third phase, ranging from Upper Paleolithic through Neolithic revolution and the emergence of urban culture up to the present era. The author is a proponent of Darwinism. He stresses that the most unique characteristic of man is his own ability to isolate his development from the dependence on genetic changes and to find solutions to all life goals and situations in the optimizing of cultural and evolutionary means.