Carles Lalueza-Fox

that was killed and cannibalized in a single event, some 49,000 years ago. This makes it a unique opportunity for investigating intragroup diversity, kinship structure, mating behaviour or reproductive patterns that are not going to be approachable anywhere else in the scattered fossil record. Carles Lalueza-Fox is a researcher at the Institute of Evolutionary Biology (CSIC-UPF) in Barcelona, where he directs a small group that focuses on paleogenomics. He obtained his Ph.D. in Biology at the University of Barcelona in 1995, and spent one year in Cambridge and another one in Oxford as a postdoc. He has published many papers on paleogenetics of extinct animals, past human populations and archaic hominins. In recent years he has been mainly working on Neanderthals, collaborating with Svante Pääbo in the Neanderthal Genome Project. Besides his research, he is interested in communicating science to the wider public and has published seven popular books on human evolution, human diversity and paleogenetics, for which he has won several prizes. He loves mountaineering and, besides numerous routes in the Pyrenees and the Alps, he has ascended the Kilimanjaro and the Aconcagua, the highest mountains in Africa and the Americas, respectively.