About Francisco J. Ayala
Spanish-American philosopher and biologist (1934–2023)... | Francisco José Ayala Pereda was a Spanish-American evolutionary biologist and philosopher who was a longtime faculty member at the University of California, Irvine, and University of California, Davis.
![“A few years ago, they [Neandertals] were thought to be ancestral to anatomically modern humans, but now we know that modern humans appeared at least 100,000 years ago, much before the disappearance of the Neandertals. Moreover, in caves in the Middle East, fossils of modern humans have been found…” quote by Francisco J. Ayala](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/88f/francisco-j-ayala-63825_areas_a-few-years-ago-they-neandertals-were-th_1073599.jpg)
