Pilar HUMAN: Fundamentos Evolutivos de la Mente y la Condición Humana (HUMAN)

Evolutionary Foundations of the Mind and the Human Condition (HUMAN)

Where evolution articulates brain, mind and human diversity as a biocultural continuum.

HUMAN Pillar: Evolutionary Foundations of the Mind and the Human Condition (HUMAN)

The HUMAN Pillar of CRAI examines the origin, emergence, and diversity of the human condition from an evolutionary and integrative perspective. Our objective is to understand when and how the human mind arises, which neurobiological, cognitive, and cultural processes shape it, and why the human species displays such broad variability in perception, thought, emotion, and behaviour.

This pillar integrates neurobiology, psychology, anthropology, cognitive science, and cultural history to analyse the co-evolution of brain, consciousness, culture, and environment. By situating the human being within its phylogenetic and ontogenetic context, we aim to develop robust explanatory frameworks on identity, symbolic thought, self-awareness, and human neurodiversity.

Scientific Axes

The scientific axes of the HUMAN Pillar define an integrative framework for the evolutionary analysis of the mind and human variability.
En este marco, el pilar se organiza en los siguientes ámbitos:

Evolutionary Foundations of the Mind and the Emergence of Consciousness

Neurobiological, Cognitive, and Cultural Co-configuration of the Human Condition

Origin and Adaptive Function of Symbolism, Language, and Culture

Neurodiversity as an Expression of Differentiated Evolutionary Trajectories

Integrative Models of Cognitive and Behavioural Variability

Projection Toward Frameworks Applicable in Education, Society, and Health

Articulation into Research Lines

The HUMAN Pillar unfolds into structural research lines that specifically develop its scientific axes while maintaining methodological coherence within the pillar’s conceptual framework.

Evolutionary Foundations of the Mind and Human Variability

State-Dependent Regulation and Neurocognitive Dynamics

Biocultural Trajectories and Adaptive Cognitive Configurations

Lines of research

Methodological approach

The HUMAN Pillar articulates a methodological framework oriented toward analysing the human mind as an emergent phenomenon arising from interdependent biocultural processes. Through comparative analysis, interdisciplinary synthesis, and theoretical modelling, the pillar identifies evolutionary patterns and develops coherent explanatory frameworks to understand cognitive variability and neurodiversity within adaptive trajectories. This approach structurally integrates:

neurobiology and cognitive neuroscience

evolutionary and developmental psychology

biological and cultural anthropology

cognitive and behavioral sciences

comparative analysis and integrative theoretical models

systematic review and interdisciplinary synthesis

This approach allows us to address the human mind as a complex system, resulting from evolutionary interactions between biology, culture, and environment.

Scientific and social relevance

An evolutionary understanding of the mind and the human condition constitutes a central axis for interpreting contemporary phenomena such as neurodiversity, psychological distress, chronic stress, and the transformation of social structures.

The HUMAN Pillar contributes to the development of rigorous conceptual frameworks that contextualise cognitive and behavioural variability within evolutionary trajectories and complex biocultural dynamics. From this perspective, it provides scientific foundations for educational, social, and health-related reflection without reducing human diversity to normative or pathologising categories.

Team and collaborations

The HUMAN Pillar of CRAI articulates an academic network dedicated to the evolutionary and integrative study of the mind and the human condition.

National and international collaborations are maintained in the fields of neuroscience, anthropology, psychology, cognitive science, and other related disciplines interested in comparative, biocultural, and systems-based approaches. ➞ Learn more

Collaboration opportunities

The HUMAN Pillar of CRAI promotes spaces for scientific cooperation aimed at the joint development of conceptual frameworks, comparative studies, and interdisciplinary syntheses concerning the evolution of the mind and human variability.

Collaborations are established within a shared methodological architecture, fostering academic exchange and the integration of evolutionary, neurobiological, and biocultural perspectives.

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