born in Gazzaniga (Bergamo, Italy, 1970), graduated in Philosophy of Science at the State University of Milan with Professor Giulio Giorello, researcher in the field of Philosophy of Biology and Theory of Evolution, after doctoral researches in USA under the supervision of Niles Eldredge and Ian Tattersall at the American Museum of Natural History in New York, he is now Associate Professor in Philosophy of Science at the University of Milan II Bicocca. The Ph.D. thesis was about the scientific work of Stephen J. Gould. His first monograph about paleoanthropology, “Homo sapiens and Other Catastrophes” (Meltemi, Rome, 2002), reached the third edition in few months. He is author of “Introduction to Philosophy of Biology” (Laterza, Roma-Bari, 2005) and “The Theory of Evolution” (Il Mulino, Bologna, 2006). He is the founder of a permanent Workshop in Philosophy of Biology at the University of Milan II Bicocca. He is the Scientific Coordinator of the Genoa Science Festival (www.festivalscienza.it). Member of the Scientific Board of Darwin Day Celebrations at the Natural History Museum of Milan, he is Director of “Pikaia”, the first Italian website dedicated to evolution and philosophy of biology. Editor of issue n. 8 (History of Science and Technology) of the “Storia della Cultura Italiana” directed by professor Luca Luigi Cavalli Sforza for UTET-Grandi Opere, he is fellow of the International Research Group on Evolutionary Hierarchy Theory founded by Niles Eldredge (American Museum of Natural History of New York). He is the editor of the Italian edition of Stephen J. Gould’s “The Structure of Evolutionary Theory” (Codice Edizioni, Torino, 2003), but also of Richard Dawkins, Niles Eldredge, Stuart Kauffman, Ian Tattersall, Susan Oyama, Kim Sterelny and Edward O. Wilson’s books. Since 1994, he is member of the Italian National Association of Journalists, with contributions to national newspaper like La Repubblica, Micromega and L’Indice dei Libri del Mese. His beloved half Cinzia gave him two wonderful children, Giulia and Luca.