What is a person? What makes it unique? Is it true that it rises above the animal kingdom? Answering these questions, the author examines a new sensational anthropological concept: man was doomed to die and survived thanks to the ability to imitate other creatures. The text of the book was translated from the original language using an artificial intelligence program. For the most part, the translation of the text is of very high quality, but in some cases, due to the imperfection of the technology, there may be incorrect phrase translations in the text, as well as single words and expressions may not be translated.