Emiliano Bruner, a paleoneurologist at the Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana (CENIEH), is the author of one of the chapters in the book “La caza en la evolución humana” (or “Hunting in human evolution”), which has just been presented by the Fundación Atapuerca and the Fundación Artemisa. This chapter is dedicated to how the cerebral and cognitive traits associated to the behaviors of hunter-gatherers evolved.

Bruner's text introduces the principles of human ecology, the evolution of the brain in the human genus, working memory, visuospatial capacities, social organization, and the capacity to integrate tools into the schemes of the brain and body. It also analyzes the conflicts that arise when a separation between biology and culture is created, and the problems this can occasion at the levels of ecology and health.

This book, coordinated by Antoni Canals and Eudald Carbonell for the publisher Editorial Almuzara, has 13 chapters written by anthropologists, paleontologists, and archaeologists, looking at diet, hunting organization and procedures in prehistory, including social structure, hunting methods, large herbivores, and cannibalism.