José María Bermúdez de Castro received his doctorate in biology from the Complutense University of Madrid. He is a research professor at CSIC and has been co-director of excavations in Atapuerca since 1991. From its foundation until 2012, he was the director of the National Center for Human Evolution Research. He has won the Príncipe de Asturias Prize for Scientific and Technical Research and has received a doctor honoris causa from the University of Burgos.
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