Recent findings from Paleoanthropology and philosophical implications.

Recent findings from Paleoanthropology and colloquium on their philosophical implications.
seminar from group Science, Reason and Faith.
Rafael Jordana and José Ignacio Murillo. Pamplona, January 16, 2024.

Rafael Jordana is currently Full Professor emeritus at the University of Navarra. He was Full Professor by civil service examination of the Chairs of Animal Physiology and Applied Zoology of the School of Sciences of the University of La Laguna in January 1971. He was Full Professor of Zoology and Comparative Animal Physiology at the University of Navarra from October 1972 until his retirement in 2011. He was creator and director of the Zoology Museum of the University of Navarra from 1980 until his retirement. He has been Dean of the School of Sciences of this university from 1981 to 1990; director of the department of Zoology from 1972 to 1993, and director of the department of Zoology and Ecology between 1993 and 1999. Throughout his professional career he has described more than 247 new species. In addition to continuing to publish in the scientific field of his interest (springtails) he has also published, in recent years, on issues related to biological and human evolution. One sample is the book: "Science on the horizon of an expanded reason: The evolution of man in the light of biological and metabiological sciences".

José Ignacio Murillo is professor Full Professor of the department of Philosophy of the School of Philosophy and Letters of the University of Navarra. Co-director of group of research Mind-Brain of Institute for Culture and Society (ICS). Member of group Science, Reason and Faith (CRYF). He has published 18 books, more than 50 publications in high impact journals, more than fifty book chapters and more than a hundred contributions to conferences. He has a long trajectory professor: he has directed a dozen of doctoral thesis and has given dozens of conferences and seminars in Spain and abroad. His current line of research is entitled: "Mind-brain: biology and subjectivity in contemporary Philosophy and neuroscience".

summary
The seminar begins with the intervention of Professor Jordana in which he exposes a "status questionis" of the most recent paleoanthropological data . After this exhibition there is a moderated colloquium on these data with Professor Murillo, which also gives the opportunity for the intervention of those present who wish to do so.

Rafael Jordana. The origin of man: current state of paleoanthropological research . Scripta Theologica Vol. XX/1, 1988, 65-98.