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El reloj de Mr. Darwin

Mr. Darwin’s Clock | Temas de Hoy/Planeta, 2009

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.

El reloj de Mr. Darwin

Mr. Darwin’s Clock | Temas de Hoy/Planeta, 2009

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.

La conciencia contada por un sapiens a un neandertal

Consciousness Told From A Sapiens To A Neanderthal | Alfaguara, 2024

Al otro lado de la niebla

On the Other Side of the Fog | Destino/Planeta, 2024; Suma/PRH, 2005

Nuestro cuerpo: siete millones de años de evolución

Our Body: Seven Million Years of Evolution | Destino/Planeta, 2023

La muerte contada por un sapiens a un neandertal

Death Told By A Sapiens To A Neanderthal | Alfaguara/PRH, 2022

La vida contada por un sapiens a un neandertal

Life Told By A Sapiens To A Neanderthal | Alfaguara/PRH, 2020

Vida, la gran historia

Life, the Great Story | Destino/Planeta, 2019

El collar del neandertal

The Neanderthal’s Necklace | Destino, 2019 / Temas de Hoy, 1999

Amalur

Amalur. The Atom in the Mind | Destino/Planeta, 2019

La especie elegida

The Chosen Species | Destino, 2019 / Temas de Hoy, 1997

El sello indeleble. Pasado, presente y futuro del ser humano

The Human Signature | Debate/Planeta, 2013

El primer viaje de nuestra vida

The First Journey of Our Life | Temas de Hoy/Planeta, 2012

Breve historia de la Tierra (con nosotros dentro)

A Brief History of Earth | Temas de hoy, 2010

Mi primer libro de la Prehistoria. Cuando el mundo era niño

My First Prehistory Book. When the World Was Just a Child | Espasa, 2008

La saga humana

The Human Saga | Edaf, 2007

Al otro lado de la niebla

On the Other Side of the Fog | Suma/PRH, 2005

El mundo de Atapuerca

The World of Atapuerca | Plaza & Janés/PRH, 2004

Los aborígenes

The Aborigines. Feeding and Human Evolution | RBA, 2002

El enigma de la esfinge

The Sphinx Enigma | Plaza & Janés/PRH, 2001