España, 1946

(Madrid, 1946) Camilo José Cela Conde has been a professor of anthropology and director of the Laboratorio de Sistemática Humana of the Universidad de las Islas Baleares. He is currentlya a visiting professor at the University of California, fellow for the American Association for the Advancement of Science, member of the Center for Academic Research and Teaching in Anthropogeny (San Diego) and member of the Centro de Estudios Vicente Lombardo Toledano (México). He is the author, together with Francisco Ayala, of Senderos de la evolución humana (Paths of human evolution) (Alianza, 2002), La piedra que se volvió palabra (The rock that became words) (Alianza, 2006), Human Evolution (Oxford University Press, 2007) and Evolución humana (Human evolution) (Alianza, 2013). The only child of Camilo José Cela, he maintained a strong relationship with him, making him an excepional witness to speak about how Cela truly was.