CONTROVERSIAL PROBLEMS OF ANTHROPOGENESIS THEORY
The paper discusses the main controversial theses of the theory of anthropogenesis: leaps from Australopithecus to Arhanthropus and from Paleoanthropus to Neoanthropus, the direction of the hominids' technological advances, the beginning and importance of tool activity, the role of hunting in anthropogenesis, the Neanderthals' positions, and the appearance time of Homo sapiens. Basing on new scientific data of the end of the ХХ - the beginning of the ХХI century the conclusions are made on the applicability of dialectics laws to the anthropogenesis process cognition, the need to supplement the conception of anthropogenesis staging with species classification, on the continuity, non-linear and gradual nature of anthropogenesis. On the basis of new scientific discoveries in social and natural sciences, the main laws of human development have been conceptualized.