ICREA - Rovira i Virgili University of Tarragona (Spain). Spain
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).
David Lordkipanidze
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Georgian National Museum. Georgia
Palaeoanthropologist, director of the Georgian National Museum. He is the author of over seventy scientific papers in publications such as Nature, Science, Comptes rendus de l’Académie des Sciences or Journal of Human Evolution. He is the leader of the Dmanisi research project, where the most ancient human remains in Eurasia were discovered, and a visiting lecturer at the National Museum of Natural History in Paris (France) and at Harvard University (USA). Associate editor in European Prehistory (Liège, Belgium), Archaeology, Ethnology & Anthropology of Eurasia (Novosibirsk, Russia), Journal of Human Evolution (London, United Kingdom) and L’Anthropologie (Paris, France). He has received numerous awards, among them the Fulbright Scholarship (2002), the Georgian President’s Award (2002), the French Ordre des Palmes académiques (2002) and the Rolex Award for Enterprise (2004).