Jordi Agustí is a
Spanish paleontologist
Paleontology (), also spelled palaeontology or palæontology, is the scientific study of life that existed prior to, and sometimes including, the start of the Holocene epoch (roughly 11,700 years before present). It includes the study of fossi ...
at the ''Instituto de Paleoecología Humana y Evolución Social'' at the
Universitat Rovira i Virgili
University of Rovira i Virgili ( ca, Universitat Rovira i Virgili; , es, Universidad Rovira y Virgili; URV) is located in the Catalan cities of Tarragona and Reus, Spain. Its name is in honour of Antoni Rovira i Virgili.
The University of Ro ...
. His research is mainly focused on the evolution of mammal fossils in relation to changing climates in the last 10 million years. He has led investigations in Europe and in North Africa, and he was part of the team that discovered some of the oldest
Eurasian
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hominids in
Dmanisi, Georgia.
He has published at least half a dozen books on science. These include:
* ''La evolución y sus metáforas'' (1994)
* ''Mammoths, sabertooths, and Hominids'' (2002)
* ''Fósiles, genes y teorías'' (2003)
* ''El ajedrez de la vida'' (Crítica, 2010)
* ''La gran migración'' (Crítica, 2011);
* ''Los primeros pobladores de Europa'' (2012)
* (with
Enric Bufill and
Marina Mosquera) ''El precio de la inteligencia'' (Crítica, 2012).
In 2002, he received the Premio de Literatura Científica from the
Fundació Catalana per a la Recerca i la innovació for ''El secreto de Darwin''. The following year, the
Generalitat de Catalunya granted him the
Narcís Monturiol Medal Narcís or Narcis may refer to:
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for scientific merit.
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Living people
Spanish male writers
Spanish paleontologists
Spanish science writers