Can a clock build itself? How could a complex organism come to be spontaneously? In 1859, a very rigorous and prestigious scientist named Charles Darwin, proclaimed he had found the answer to the ultimate question, and called it “natural selection”. A few years later, he demonstrated our species has the same evolutional origin as any other of the innumerable life forms with which we share the planet. Darwin was a great scientist who embarked, at 22 years of age, in an adventure that would last his whole existence, and since then we see the world and ourselves in a different way.
Nobody better than the paleontologist Juan Luis Arsuaga to explain how the idea of the evolution arised in Darwin´s mind, little by little, gaining strength, while his body became weak and ill. Arsuaga offers an interesting take on Darwinism, integrating in the same discourse different scientists of varied times, from the ones previous to Darwin to the last contributions of the 21st century, and helps us to better understand this passionate debate.
Can a clock build itself? How could a complex organism come to be spontaneously? In 1859, a very rigorous and prestigious scientist named Charles Darwin, proclaimed he had found the answer to the ultimate question, and called it “natural selection”. A few years later, he demonstrated our species has the same evolutional origin as any other of the innumerable life forms with which we share the planet. Darwin was a great scientist who embarked, at 22 years of age, in an adventure that would last his whole existence, and since then we see the world and ourselves in a different way.
Nobody better than the paleontologist Juan Luis Arsuaga to explain how the idea of the evolution arised in Darwin´s mind, little by little, gaining strength, while his body became weak and ill. Arsuaga offers an interesting take on Darwinism, integrating in the same discourse different scientists of varied times, from the ones previous to Darwin to the last contributions of the 21st century, and helps us to better understand this passionate debate.
Consciousness Told From A Sapiens To A Neanderthal | Alfaguara, 2024
On the Other Side of the Fog | Destino/Planeta, 2024; Suma/PRH, 2005
Our Body: Seven Million Years of Evolution | Destino/Planeta, 2023
Death Told By A Sapiens To A Neanderthal | Alfaguara/PRH, 2022
Life Told By A Sapiens To A Neanderthal | Alfaguara/PRH, 2020
Life, the Great Story | Destino/Planeta, 2019
The Neanderthal’s Necklace | Destino, 2019 / Temas de Hoy, 1999
Amalur. The Atom in the Mind | Destino/Planeta, 2019
The Chosen Species | Destino, 2019 / Temas de Hoy, 1997
The Human Signature | Debate/Planeta, 2013
The First Journey of Our Life | Temas de Hoy/Planeta, 2012
A Brief History of Earth | Temas de hoy, 2010
My First Prehistory Book. When the World Was Just a Child | Espasa, 2008
The Human Saga | Edaf, 2007
On the Other Side of the Fog | Suma/PRH, 2005
The World of Atapuerca | Plaza & Janés/PRH, 2004
The Aborigines. Feeding and Human Evolution | RBA, 2002
The Sphinx Enigma | Plaza & Janés/PRH, 2001