Ramón María Nogués

Ramón María Nogués

Ramón María Nogués (Barcelona, ​​1937) is Professor Emeritus of Biological Anthropology at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. He has studied pedagogy, philosophy and theology, and is a doctor in biology from the University of Barcelona. It works on population genetics, especially in isolated human populations. He has studied topics of evolutionary neurobiology and has collaborated in interdisciplinary neuropsychiatry teams with the Fundació Vidal i Barraquer. In this context, he has analyzed issues related to the neurobiology of religiosity. He has intervened in bioethics studies and official commissions on this discipline. He has been a Piarist since 1955 and a priest since 1961. In Fragmenta he has published the books Gods, Beliefs and Neurons. A scientific approach to religion (2011); About life i the mort. Possibilitats i límits of the human intervention (2008, in collaboration), and Cervell i transcendència (2011), whose version in Spanish -updated- we publish today