Biography:

Dr. Martinez-Contreras has a PhD in Philosophy by the Sorbonne and has been a professor for 38 years in four Mexican Universities and four French and Spanish ones (sabbatical leaves). He has published more than twenty books as single author, co-author and/or editor, and more than one hundred papers, most of them as a single author. He has given more than two hundred conferences and communications in specialized meetings. He is a specialist in Evolutionism, especially in History and Philosophy of Primatology (the impact of the discovery of intelligent apes on Western Philosophy and on general social values, is the main subject of his research). He has been Director of Social Sciences Division and President of the UAM, Iztapalapa Campus. He has been president of important scientific societies, as the Mexican Philosophical Association and the Mexican Primatological Society: he is also a founder of the Bogot Group of Evolutionary Thought (a European and Latin-American group of scholars working on evolutionism). He has also conducted fieldwork in Central and South America, and also in Africa, in order to study primates conservation efforts in those continents. He is finishing a trilingual edition of Buffons Primates and a book on Darwin, and preparing the specialized symposium to be publishedLamarck-Darwin. Two hundred years of evolutionism. He is co-organizing the IPS World Congress on Primatology, 2012.

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