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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