Among the sciences of Rome there is palaeoanthropology, a declination into the past of anthropology. The discipline evolved from 1929 to 1939 with the remarkable discoveries of Neanderthal remains at Saccopastore, then in the north-eastern outskirts of the city, as well as with those of Monte Circeo. Decades before, when the positivist outlook of the late-Nineteenth Century was in full swell, the Scuola Romana di Antropologia had been founded and continues to be active internationally today despite the considerable heuristic progress made by human sciences. They too have Neanderthal at the centre of their attention, as part of a human evolutionary tree that is becoming increasingly ramified.

Giorgio Manzi he is professor of Anthropology (BIO/08) at Sapienza University of Rome and Accademico dei Lincei. Paleoanthropologist of international importance, his scientific activity includes aspects of functional morphology, human evolution and biology of ancient human populations. Also known as a science popularizer, he collaborates with newspapers, periodicals, radio and TV broadcasts. Among the books for Il Mulino, we remember "The great story of human evolution" (2013-2018), "Latest news on human evolution" (2017) and, recently in bookstores, "The last Neanderthal tells: stories before history" (2021).

Telmo Pievani, philosopher of biology and expert in the theory of evolution. He is Professor at the Department of Biology of the University of Padua, where he holds the first Italian chair of Philosophy of Biological Sciences. At the same Department he also teaches Bioethics and Naturalistic Dissemination. Since 2016 he has been the Rector's Delegate for Institutional Communication of the University of Padua. Since 2017 he has been President of the Italian Society of Evolutionary Biology.

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