The world's leading experts in Human Evolution are gathered in Faro for an annual congress that runs until Saturday, 15th September, at the University of Algarve's Gambelas Campus.
The Municipal Museum of Faro hosted this Thursday, the 13th, the opening day of the 8th congress of the European Society for the study of Human Evolution (ESHE), which, for the first time, is being held in Portugal.
In this initiative "the most recent discoveries will be presented, from the appearance of the first hominids in Africa, to the evolution of the Anatomically Modern Man", according to the Chamber of Faro.
In total there will be more than 200 presentations, including the dissemination of the most recent research on the behavior of Neanderthals, namely the use of fire and the oldest rock art in Paleolithic caves.
Yesterday, the 12th, the anthropologist René Bobe gave a lecture on the most recent discoveries in the field of human evolution, at Teatro Lethes, in Faro.
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