Carlos Castrodeza Ruíz de la Cuesta (1945 – April 2012) was a Spanish biologist and philosopher. He taught philosophy of science at Madrid's Complutense University. Biography Work Authority on Darwin and Darwinism, Castrodeza’s thought focuses on bioethical problems from an ethological viewpoint and on scientific problems (epistemological) and ideologies from a naturalistic perspective. Castrodeza's Darwinian trilogy Biology's Deep Ways Razón biológica (Biological Reason), Nihilismo y supervivencia (Nihilism and Survival) y La darwinización del mundo (The Darwinization of the World) intends to show how little control we have over our future despite our profound preoccupation for things past. For Castrodeza ethological considerations referring to behavioural mental patterns concerning man's philosophical, theological and scientific activities have a lot to say as to how we build the world in which we strive to survive. These patterns are not necessarily directly adaptative, in fact they are part of the package deal integrated in our overall strategy for survival. Naturally this strategy need not be the proper one in the sense that we may not meet adequately after all the survival challenges we have in front of us. In fact nothing guaranties our survival and we may perfectly be in spite of our mental sophistication on the wrong track. Our wishes and intentions may have little to do with the best way to survive in the long run and may be at bottom we do not even care. We act and hope for the best on the basis of our experience which is not very much to go by. Books La darwinización del mundo, Barcelona, Herder, 2009, El flujo de la historia y el sentido de la vida. La retórica irresistible de la selección natural, Barcelona, Herder, 2013 (The flow of history and the meaning of life. The irresistible rhetoric of natural selection), Nihilismo y supervivencia: una expresión naturalista de lo inefable, Madrid, Trotta, 2007 (Nihilism and survival: A naturalistic expression of the indescribable) Los límites de la historia natural: hacia una nueva biología del conocimiento, Madrid (Tres Cantos), Akal, 2003, (Natural History boundaries: Towards a new biology of knowledge) La marsopa de Heidegger: el lugar de la ciencia en la cultura actual, Madrid, Dykinson, 2003 (Heidegger’s porpoise: The place of science in today’s Western Culture) Razón biológica: la base evolucionista del pensamiento, Madrid, Minerva, 1999 (Biological thinking: The evolutionist roots of thought) (Book reviewed in Biology and Philosophy by Andrés Moya, 2001). Teoría histórica