The book by the English author examines the environmental aspects of the problem of human origins. An analysis of those environmental facts that determined the direction of natural selection among ancient hominids and their evolution was carried out. The book is written strictly scientifically, but easily and accessible; Thanks to the original approach, it does not duplicate the existing publications on the Paleoanthropology. The holding of the problem of human uniqueness is pushed by people from other creatures? Our place in the nature of the evolution of human evolution of human -like hominisa by the framework of the narrative, the evolutionary ecology ecology and ecological selection and adaptation as the process of solving the problems of the Problem Pologiya of the past establishment of connections between the past and the real study of the study of the pastAnalytical paleoecologyHominids as tropical animalsEvolution of hominids and the tropicsFeatures of tropical ecologyEarly hominids in tropical conditionsPalaeoecological changesHominids as large mammalsBody size and evolutionBody size in hominidsEcological correlates of body sizeAdaptive consequences of increasing hominin size during evolutionBody size, brain size and adaptation of hominidsHominids as terrestrial primatesEvolution of primates and terrestrial lifestyleEvolutionary ecology of narrow-nosed monkeysAdaptive characteristics of terrestrial primatesTerrestrial lifestyle of hominidsHominids in environments with pronounced seasonal variabilityCompetitionHabitat of early hominidsEcology of savannasSeasonal variability and availability of food sourcesResponse to seasonal variability: comparative analysisStrategies of food search in hominids in environments with seasonal variabilityHominoids for all seasonsConditions of ecological separationEvolution natural and behavioral consequences of eating meatHominids and community evolutionHominid communityFacts indicating hominid diversityCommunity ecology and coevolutionFormation and extinction of speciesRate of evolutionHominids as dispersal animalsExodus from Africa