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Researcher at the Catalan Institute of Human Paleoecology and Social Evolution (IPHES-CERCA), associate professor at Rovira i Virgili University, and co-director of the Atapuerca project
Co-director of the Atapuerca Project and Director General of the Atapuerca Foundation
A research team led by the British Museum presents evidence in the journal Nature that humans were making fire – deliberately and not just taking advantage of natural fires – 400,000 years ago in Barnham (United Kingdom). The remains analysed, including burnt sediments, heat-damaged flint axes and pieces of pyrite, are much older than those recorded to date, which dated the deliberate use of fire to around 50,000 years ago in northern France.
The Karolinska Institute has awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology to Swedish biologist Svante Pääbo, a specialist in evolutionary genetics, for his discoveries on the genomes of extinct hominids and human evolution.