"It is necessary to rethink the naturalistic program because it does not affirm all the possibilities derived from Biology and Science". This was stated by the philosopher Francisco Rodríguez Valls at the University of Navarra during the September seminar of the group Science, Reason and Faith (CRYF) focused on "The origins of man", degree scroll of one of his works.

Professor Rodríguez Valls, based on the content of his publication, offered an interdisciplinary update of what we know today about the human being and described what his uniqueness and dignity consist of. He also summarized and evaluated the arguments that the natural science of the last two hundred years and the hermeneutics of the last century have contributed to the explanation and understanding of the human being.

Starting from the Darwinian understanding framework , he reviewed the birth of human corporeality and culture, and addressed the fundamental themes of anthropology: the origin of affectivity, consciousness and freedom.

Francisco Rodríguez Valls, is Professor of Philosophical Anthropology at the University of Seville, University where he graduated in Philosophy with award Extraordinary and obtained his doctorate. He has made postdoctoral stays of research at the Universities of Oxford, Glasgow, Vienna, Munich and Berlin Technical University. Author of several research monographs such as The Gaze in the Mirror (2001), Anthropology and Utopia (2009), The Emotional Subject (2015) and Origins of Man (2017), he has also translated Thomas Reid's Of Power (2005) and Thomas Nagel's The Mind and the Cosmos (2014).

He is part of the seminar Permanent Nature and Freedom of the University of Seville and is co-director of the interdisciplinary journal of the same name programs of study published by the University of Malaga. He is Visiting Professor in several universities in Colombia and Peru.