At its regular meeting in August 2023, the Scientific Council of the European Academy of Sciences elected Prof. Nikolai Spassov as its member (fellow) in the “Social Sciences and Humanities” Division for his research on the early evolution of humans. Prof. Spassov is the third Bulgarian to be honored with this election after the President of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Academician Julian Revalski and Prof. Vladimir Dimitrov from the Institute of Organic Chemistry with the Phytochemistry Center at the BAS.
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