Jordi Agustí is a
Spanish paleontologist
Paleontology, also spelled as palaeontology or palæontology, is the scientific study of the life of the past, mainly but not exclusively through the study of fossils. Paleontologists use fossils as a means to classify organisms, measure geolo ...
at the ''Instituto de Paleoecología Humana y Evolución Social'' at the
Universitat Rovira i Virgili. 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 hominids
The Hominidae (), whose members are known as the great apes or hominids (), are a taxonomic family of primates that includes eight extant species in four genera: '' Pongo'' (the Bornean, Sumatran and Tapanuli orangutan); '' Gorilla'' (the ...
in
Dmanisi
Dmanisi ( ka, დმანისი, tr, , ) is a town and archaeological site in the Kvemo Kartli region of Georgia (country), Georgia approximately 93 km southwest of the nation’s capital Tbilisi in the river valley of Mashavera.
Abandoned i ...
, 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
The Generalitat de Catalunya (; ; ), or the Government of Catalonia, is the institutional system by which Catalonia is self-governed as an autonomous community of Spain. It is made up of the Parliament of Catalonia, the President of the Govern ...
granted him the
Narcís Monturiol Medal for scientific merit.
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Spanish male writers
Spanish paleontologists
Spanish science writers