Postulates on the tertiary age of humanity by some late-19th century evolutionists gave rise to heated controversy among naturalists, biologists and physicians. In Spain, the diatribes between supporters and detractors must be located within the general context of the evolutionary subject in a country, that was deeply polarized by ideological impregnations. Spanish debate was specially motivated by the arrival in Valencia of a human skeleton fossil in 1889. This specimen, collected in Argentina, showed some peculiar traits that were classified as primitive and dating from the Tertiary time period. During the early decades of 20th century, a series of papers about that skeleton were published and the controversy was reactivated. On one sid...
This paper analises the ways used by the physicians to support scientifically the inferior condition...
The author analyzes the position of Spanish medicine in the contemporary debate on age, leaning on f...
Between the years 1939 and 1959, extensive changes took place in the objectives, practices and conte...
During the founding period of palaeoanthropology, the postulate about tertiary age of humankind was ...
During the first decades of the 20th Century important findings of hominids fossil remains were made...
The second half of the nineteenth century in Spain was a period characterized by a strong presence o...
La Paleontología se impartía ya en España a mediados del siglo XIX, tanto en la Escuela de Ingeniero...
Historiographical production on evolutionism in Spain has given rise to a set of very appreciable or...
During the first decades of the 20th century, the activities of naturalists in the Valencian Country...
The knowledge of man in the Spain of the Enlightment was conditioned by prejudices and intolerance, ...
Centenary celebrations of Darwin’s birth were held in Valencia and Lorca in 1909. Fifty years later,...
El autor se refiere al origen de la dicotomía entre arte y ciencia, y las reacciones que enfrentaron...
Este artículo analiza algunos aspectos de la trayectoria del científico argentino Francisco Pascasio...
The work by Pedro Aquenza is included in the field of the debates aroused in the science modernizati...
Hacia fines del siglo XIX, las corrientes evolucionistas en antropología discutían la distancia que ...
This paper analises the ways used by the physicians to support scientifically the inferior condition...
The author analyzes the position of Spanish medicine in the contemporary debate on age, leaning on f...
Between the years 1939 and 1959, extensive changes took place in the objectives, practices and conte...
During the founding period of palaeoanthropology, the postulate about tertiary age of humankind was ...
During the first decades of the 20th Century important findings of hominids fossil remains were made...
The second half of the nineteenth century in Spain was a period characterized by a strong presence o...
La Paleontología se impartía ya en España a mediados del siglo XIX, tanto en la Escuela de Ingeniero...
Historiographical production on evolutionism in Spain has given rise to a set of very appreciable or...
During the first decades of the 20th century, the activities of naturalists in the Valencian Country...
The knowledge of man in the Spain of the Enlightment was conditioned by prejudices and intolerance, ...
Centenary celebrations of Darwin’s birth were held in Valencia and Lorca in 1909. Fifty years later,...
El autor se refiere al origen de la dicotomía entre arte y ciencia, y las reacciones que enfrentaron...
Este artículo analiza algunos aspectos de la trayectoria del científico argentino Francisco Pascasio...
The work by Pedro Aquenza is included in the field of the debates aroused in the science modernizati...
Hacia fines del siglo XIX, las corrientes evolucionistas en antropología discutían la distancia que ...
This paper analises the ways used by the physicians to support scientifically the inferior condition...
The author analyzes the position of Spanish medicine in the contemporary debate on age, leaning on f...
Between the years 1939 and 1959, extensive changes took place in the objectives, practices and conte...