On July 6 and 7, two conferences celebrate two decades of this pioneering center in the study of human evolution, which already has more than 3,000 scientific publications.
On March 27, 2004, the "birth certificate" of the Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana (CENIEH) was published in the Official State Gazette (BOE), a leading center in the study of our origins that these days celebrates 20 years of scientific production, with more than 3,000 articles, which have placed Spain at the forefront of research in human evolution.
On this anniversary, an event has been held at the CENIEH this Saturday, July 6th, with the presence of Eva Ortega Paíno, Secretary General for Research of the Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades, and Jesús Manuel Hurtado Olea, Secretary General for Education of the Junta de Castilla y León.
This event has included the conference: "The scientific language in the Royal Spanish Academy," given by the first director of CENIEH José Mª Bermúdez de Castro, ad Honorem researcher of this Center and academic member of the RAE, in which he has explained how some terms of the immense flow generated by scientific disciplines are filtered into society and may end up being part of the common lexicon of speakers and the Dictionary of the Spanish Language.
The conference has been provided with Sign Language Interpretation (ILSE), thanks to the collaboration of the Asociación de Familias de Personas Sordas de Burgos (ARANSBUR).
Double anniversary
The CENIEH building, which was the first of the three buildings of the Human Evolution Complex to open its doors, celebrates 15 years since it was inaugurated on July 7, 2009 by H.M. Queen Sofia. "That is why in 2024 we celebrate two anniversaries, 20 years of research at CENIEH and 15 years of its current headquarters," says CENIEH Director María Martinón-Torres.
Prof. Nicholas Conard, director of the Department of Early Prehistory and Quaternary Ecology at the University of Tübingen (Germany), is the guest of the sixth edition of the CENIEH Distinguished Annual Lecture, an event whose aim is to bring every year to the city of Burgos a renowned scientist in the field of human evolution.
This Sunday, July 7, at 7:00 pm, this prestigious archaeologist has given the lecture "Music, Art and Human Evolution", in which he explains how art and music became universal features of human societies and contribute to what it means to be human today.
Since it will be given in English, it will be subtitled live in Spanish. The conference can also be followed in streaming through the CENIEH channel on YouTube.
These events have the collaboration of the Fundación Española para la Ciencia y la Tecnología (FECYT) – Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades.
