Dioses y mendigos

We need to know who we are and where we come from to understand the lights and shadows of our present and, above all, to approach the theories and conjectures about an uncertain future, marked by a technology whose exponential progress often escapes our complete understanding and control. particular rhythm of biological changes. Gods and Beggars offers us a fascinating journey to revisit our origins as a species, penetrate the enigmas of the brain and genetics and rediscover the central role of culture in the history of Humanity. We are a very particular way of life, with enormous intelligence and, at the same time, with great fragility. The first, driven by genomic changes and natural selection, has allowed us to expand and subject ecosystems and species to our designs. However, this same preeminence brings us closer to collapse in the form of a climate emergency, resource depletion and consequent extinction or transhumanism. To ward off this uncertainty, José María Bermúdez de Castro proposes renewing our commitment to science and knowledge, aware that evolution is still underway. Knowing our nature is an imperative need, even more so when we have distanced ourselves too much from the reality to which we belong and forgotten that we are part of biodiversity and are subject to its laws.