Name: El enigma de la esfinge (in Spanish)
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Author: Juan Luis Arsuaga
ISBN: 9788497933629

portada El enigma de la esfinge (in Spanish)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Juan Luis Arsuaga

Publisher

Debolsillo

Year

2004

Language

Spanish

Pages

543

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

12 x 19 cm

Weight

0.85

ISBN

8497933621

ISBN13

9788497933629

Edited in

España

Synopsis "El enigma de la esfinge (in Spanish)"

Al igual que la esfinge, inmutable, planteó a Edipo un enigma cuya solución significaría la salvación de Tebas, la evolución plantea a los científicos no uno, sino múltiples enigmas. No tanto en la teoría general, que después de vencer.

múltiples resistencias ha sido aceptada por la mayoría de la comunidad científica, como en aspectos concretos de gran relevancia, como la existencia o no de un propósito en la evolución, o si esta se encuentra sometida a la dialéctica del azar y la necesidad. El autor de esta obra, paleontólogo, conduce al lector a través de estas espinosas cuestiones con autoridad y amenidad, como si se tratara de un relato, demostrando que la divulgación no está reñida, ni mucho menos, con el mayor rigor.

Juan Luis Arsuaga

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Juan Luis Arsuaga (Madrid, 1954) holds a degree and PhD in Biological Sciences and is a professor of Paleontology at the Complutense University of Madrid. He is one of the world's leading paleontologists and the most important science communicator in Spain. Co-director of the Atapuerca research team, he has been awarded the Princess of Asturias Award, among many others. In 1992, he discovered the most complete skull in the fossil record of human evolution in the Sima de los Huesos. He is the scientific director of the Museum of Human Evolution in Burgos and a member of the United States Academy of Sciences. He has been named doctor honoris causa by the universities of Burgos, Zaragoza, and Polytechnic University of Valencia. He is the author of major publishing successes translated into multiple languages, such as The Chosen Species (1998), The Neanderthal's Necklace (1999), Amalur: From Atom to Mind (2002), and Life, the Great Story (2019), and together with Juan José Millás, of the books Life Told by a Sapiens to a Neanderthal (2020) and Death Told by a Sapiens to a Neanderthal (2022). In 2023 he published Our Body; in 2024, Destiny recovers the novel On the Other Side of the Fog.

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