Nationality:

• Spaniard by birth, Mexican by adoption

Education:

• Cambrige University, England, Ph.D., 1956
• School of Anthropology, Mexico City, B.A., 1950-1953
• School of Medicine, Mexico City, 1944-1947

Teaching/Research Appointments:
 

• Titular Research Fellow, National Authonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), 1956 to present
• At the present, Emeritus Professor of Anthropology and Dean of the Institute of Anthropological Research at UNAM

Publications:
 

• Author of about 250 specialized publications, (among them 14 books), and 70 reviews on: Sex Differences; Sex, Age and Stature Determination in Human Bones; Early Man in the Americas; Race and Racism; Paleoanthropology and Human Evolution; Aggresion and Violence; Human Behavior, etc.
• Beyond science has published essays on Bu?uel, Prados, Kafka, Proust, Joyce, Orwelll, and Picasso
• Author of the film Pax? (1968, 76 min), based on his book Is Peace Inevitable? Aggression, Evolution and Human Destiny
• Author of the animated cartoons Muscle and Culture (1968, 7 min.), and The World Cup of Peace (1986, 5 min), both in collaboration with Dick Williams

Professional Activities:
 

• Participant of both Expeditions-Experiments RA of crossing of the Atlantic on papyrus rafts (1969-1970)
• Organizer and leader of the raft trans-Atlantic and trans-Caribbean crossing from Africa to America (The Acali Expedition, 1973)

Honors and Awards:
 

• For his participation in the Trans-Atlantic Expeditions-Experiments Santiago Genov?s has been awarded with Pin of Order of Malta, National Order of Merit of Nile (Egypt), Pollena della Bravura (Italy), National Order of the Quissame Alaouite (Morocco), etc.
• Other awards: Idem for Promotion and Diffusion of Science (1991), International Peace Prize Memorial Pope John XXIII (1968), First Prize of the Mexican Academy of Sciences (1961)

University Service and Administrative Positions:
 

• President of the Mexican Society of Human Biologists, 1986-1988
• Honorary Co-President of the American Association Association of Physical Anthropologists, 1968-1969
• Editor of the Yearbook of Physical Anthropology, 1964-1969
• Member of the Executive Committee of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists, 1964-1967
• Vice-President, Mexican Academy of Sciences, 1963-1964
• General Secretary, Division of Doctorate in Anthropology, National Autonomous University of Mexico, 1959-1964
• Co-Founder: International Association of Human Biologists (his idea); Mexican Society of Biological Anthropology; Mexican Academy of Sciences

Professional Associations:
 

• Fellow of the American Anthropological Association, the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, the Societ? d’Anthropologie de Paris, the International Society for Research on Aggression (during thirteen years member of the Council), etc.