Editorial Unimagdalena

Description in English: Long live Human Evolution! It is an invitation to marvel at your own body, a result of a long evolutionary process. To read this book that you now have in your hands, hands that allow you to delicately manipulate precious objects and at the same time forcefully grasp that which requires it, it was necessary for our lineage to travel a path of millions of years during which anatomical structures and behaviors were forged, enabling our species to carry out activities that are practically unique. To read these lines, we have highly specialized eyes, a brain that processes information in an extraordinary way, allowing us to understand language and the Author's intentions captured in these pages, and to connect them with what the Illustrator expressed in her figures. Likewise, we have the ability to express the thoughts and feelings generated by this book through a complex system of signs, both oral and written. Evolution is a wonder; being interested in it and asking ourselves about our origin is sufficient proof of our complexity. However, as special as we may be, Long Live Human Evolution! also highlights the way we share many characteristics with other beings, our dependence on other beings on the planet, and the variability, resulting from evolution, that makes our journey through life so entertaining.Through the study of Human Evolution or Paleoanthropology, the book invites us to explore a fascinating discipline that is constantly changing thanks to the discovery of new fossils, behaviors observed in other primates, the application of new technologies to old discoveries, and the application of Genetics and other Sciences, allowing for a better understanding of our past and present. The work is divided INSERT INTO two parts; the first covers generalities about Anthropology and Biological Anthropology, as well as the history of Paleoanthropology, providing some bases to understand Evolution in general and presenting basic knowledge about the order of Primates. The second part discusses different fossils related to our lineage and the theories, along with genetic evidence, that have allowed us to develop them.