Sapiens. In the path of the human being

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  • Jordi Agustí Catalan Institute of Human Paleoecology and Social Evolution (Rovira i Virgili University of Tarragona, Spain).

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https://doi.org/10.7203/metode.8.21091

Abstract

Despite the disorientation caused by the almost continuous bombardment of news about the discovery of a new fossil that revolutionises everything we knew about human evolution, at the beginning of the twenty-first century, there is a broad consensus on certain key moments in our evolution: from the first clearly bipedal hominines, about 4 million years ago, to the origin of our own species, Homo sapiens, around 300,000 years ago. This consensus on the broad lines of our evolution, however, does not preclude a considerable number of unanswered questions and uncertainties, which are still under discussion today.

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Author Biography

Jordi Agustí, Catalan Institute of Human Paleoecology and Social Evolution (Rovira i Virgili University of Tarragona, Spain).

ICREA Research Professor at the Catalan Institute of Human Paleoecology and Social Evolution (Rovira i Virgili University of Tarragona, Spain). As a palaeontologist, his research activity focusses on the evolution of fossil mammal communities over the last ten million years and he has published more than two hundred papers within this specialisation, most of them in international scientific journals. He has directed several European research projects, as well as palaeontological campaigns in Libya and Georgia. In the latter, he is part of the international team at the Dmanisi site. Some of his most noteworthy works are La evolución y sus metáforas (Tusquets, 1994), Mammoths, sabertooths, and hominids (Columbia University Press, 2002), Fósiles, genes y teorías (Tusquets, 2003), La gran migración (Crítica, 2011), Los primeros pobladores de Europa (RBA, 2012), Alicia en el país de la evolución (Crítica, 2013), and La sonrisa de Leonardo (RBA, 2015).

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Published

2021-06-17

How to Cite

Agustí, J. (2021). Sapiens. In the path of the human being. Metode Science Studies Journal, (8), 68–69. https://doi.org/10.7203/metode.8.21091
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Making science: A multitude of perspectives (2018)

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