Biologist Francisco Ayala dies at the age of 88

• FRANCISCO AYALA "Believing in God is an act of faith that science cannot demonstrate"

The Spanish biologist Francisco Ayala Pereda, a naturalized American, a former Dominican friar, and an evolution specialist has died at the age of 88, days before his birthday.

A disciple of Theodosius Dobzhansky, he represents the second generation on the list of the most illustrious representatives of neo-Darwinism.

To know more

Science.

The US National Academy of Sciences expels biologist Francisco Ayala for sexually harassing four colleagues

• Writing: TERESA GUERRERO Madrid

The US National Academy of Sciences expels biologist Francisco Ayala for sexually harassing four colleagues

SEXUAL HARASSMENT.

Francisco Ayala, after being dismissed for sexual harassment: "I have been fired for my gentlemanly manners"

• Writing: TERESA GUERRERO Madrid

• Writing: EFE Los Angeles

Francisco Ayala, after being dismissed for sexual harassment: "I have been fired for my gentlemanly manners"

The prestigious Spanish evolutionary biologist resigned, forced, from the

in 2018, after an investigation by his center gave credence to

filed against him by four women with whom he worked.

The Madrid researcher, who has spent practically his entire career in the US,

arguing that he had been fired for his "gentlemanly manners" and that they had turned his "kindness into accusations of sexual harassment", as he told this newspaper. in an interview in July 2018.

The Spanish scientist

since the organization revised its statutes to allow its members to leave the institution if they violate its code of conduct.

Author of more than 40 books, Ayala, who is a United States national, has been named an

by twenty universities

and, among other positions, was a scientific adviser to President Bill Clinton.

Among the numerous areas in which he has investigated, his

According to the criteria of The Trust Project

Know more