Xavier Bellés —head of the Institute for Evolutionary Biology (CSIC-UPF) in Barcelona— talked with us on the occasion of the launching of the book he adapted to contemporary Catalan, Bestiari.

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] [caption id="attachment_468" align="alignnone" width="1200"] Foto: Pere Estupinyà[/caption] Throughout his career, George Whitesides (Louisville, U.S.A., 1939) has developed powerful nanofabrication techniques such as soft lithography and molecular self-assembly. His research earned him the 2008 Prince of Asturias Award, among many other awards and recognitions. In this interview

Richard Dawkins’ investiture as honorary doctor by the University of Valencia was one of the most remarkable events of the Year of Darwin (2009). Richard Dawkins is one of the most influential intellectuals of the last decades. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society and the Royal Society of Literature.

Edward O. Wilson has been fascinated by nature ever since he was a child. He cannot imagine anything more amusing or appealing than the study of the complexity of any ecosystem on Earth. Some years ago, when he was a lecturer at Harvard University, Wilson used to tell his students to go for walk in campus and take a look at the ground.