AXEL OLIVERES (Terrassa 1962-2006)                                   Make no mistake: the human species is capable of gaining a keen awareness of its place in the global domain; and there is absolutely no reason why the world's population can not operate in sympathy and harmony -and humility too- with the planet on which we so recently evolved. During that relatively brief span evolutionary pressures forged a brain capable of profound understanding of matters animate and inanimate: the fruits of intellectual and tecnological endeavor in this latter quarter of the 20th century give us just an inking of what the human mind can achieve. The potentialis enormous, almost infinite. We can, if so choose, do virtually anything: arid lands will become fertile; terrible diseases will be cured by genetic engineering; touring other planets will become routine; we may even come to understand how the human mind works! (Richard E. Leakey, Origins, 1977)