Interdisciplinary Anthropology

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This volume emerges from a research project titled “Evolutionary Continuity – Human Specifics – The Possibility of Objective Knowledge,” involving six academic disciplines over three and a half years. The project addresses the riddle of human uniqueness, which, while undeniable, has resisted satisfactory explanations in recent decades. No singular factor accounts for the distinctiveness of human existence; instead, human skills stem from a continuous relationship with pre-human abilities developed earlier in evolution. This raises the question: how did the uniqueness of humans evolve from these non-special abilities? The work explores several key issues: the strength of evolutionary continuity in humans, the transition to cultural discontinuity, the unique aspects of human cultural existence, and whether the possibility of objective knowledge serves as a significant example. The findings aim to shed light on the central questions of contemporary scientific anthropology.