I want to find a book to read in English. I´ve try to read a book in English many times but It´s difficult to me because most of time I expend a lot of time looking for the vocabulary I don´t know. May be the problem is that I choose wrong authors, who write in a complex way. I believe that choose a correct topic is other of the most important aspects to take into account, because if the book will take you an effort it should be interesting to catch you and motivate you to continue reading. Could you give me any advice? Do you know a good book to read?

Disappeared twin syndrome in human evolution The study of human evolution is a young science in spite of our origin has been a mystery that has obsessed us since we are aware of ourselves. In the last years we have resolve some aspects of this mystery getting an open window to our past. Now a day, we can say with some confidence that our origin was in Africa, we come from small primates like chimpanzees, bipedalism has been one of the most important advantages of these groups such as the meat incorporation in their diet… But there is an aspect about our evolution that attracts my attention especially is the fact that we have walked with other species, very similar to us, until 30.000 years ago. At the beginning these species were ecological competitors, group with which we had to fight for the resources, sometimes directly, sometimes with our biological skills, and finally became extinct. In the Middle Paleolithic appeared more complex groups in Europe and Asia that coexisted with our ancestors. When the first fossils of these groups were discoverer, in the early twentieth century, were interpreted like pathological individuals not as members of other species and this idea was maintained in the following years. That´s the reason why we tend to believe that Neanderthals, for example, where dimwit, primitives, rough… but now we know that they have enough cognitive abilities to perform complex funerary rites, decorate their body, create beautiful and useful tools, develop difficult hunt strategies… we swapped culture and objects with then, even DNA, the 2% of our DNA come from Neanderthals. It should be impressive and terrific al the same time meet with someone very different to you but equally intelligent. This aspect about our evolution make me think if our obsession about aliens or monsters, most of the times anthropomorphic, could be a disappeared twin syndrome.

An embarrassing moment In my family we have very good relationship between ourselves, although sometimes it´s difficult we try to meet almost ones a month and most of the times we go to dinner or lunch to a restaurant. Another characteristic of my family is that we love travel, my aunt have travelled around the entire world, and most of us have work in different counties, so we usually to chose international food restaurant. When I was twelve years old we went to Japanese restaurant, it was a very good one, and they decorated the dishes in an originally way. I was excited, it was the first time I taste Japanese food. I asked sushi to eat and they brought me beautiful dish with many colours. It was sometimes that surprised to me, it seemed that Japanese have something in common with Mexican, they take guacamole sauce. So I took a makisushi and dipped it in the “guacamole”. Obviously it wasn´t guacome but wasabi, my face turned red immediately and I began to cough, my mother give me breath and all the water she got. When I began to feel better I realise that all people in the restaurant were watched to me. I continue eating without being able to taste anything and completely embarrassed.

My first entre Good afternoon I want to use my first entre to introduce me to you. I´m Cecilia, I come from Spain, at the moment I´ve just began my PhD about paleoanthropolgy or, in other words, about human evolution. 2014 was the first year I was doing my PhD and I´ve spent time reading papers from other researches, it was written in English of course, and now I want to improve my writing English in order to start writing my own works. I´m taking English lessons in the Official Languages School of Spain, but I need practice more listening, writing or speaking because in class we only learn grammar and make exercises. Because of that I have decided to write a one text per day, I would be grateful if you correct my mistakes and help me to improve. I could correct any text in Spanish if someone needs it. Thank you!