%0 Journal Article
%T La pol¨¦mica sobre el hombre terciario y su expresi¨®n en la valencia de comienzos del siglo XX
%A Catal¨¢ Gorgues
%A Jes¨²s I.
%J Asclepio : Revista de Historia de la Medicina y de la Ciencia
%D 2012
%I Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cient¨ªficas
%X 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 side, we find Eduardo Bosc¨¢, natural history professor in the University of Valencia, as a partisan of Tertiary age; on the other, the physician Faustino Barber¨¢ and some Jesuit scientists. Scientific data and ideological and religious arguments were combined in the defence of each confronted view. El postulado por parte de algunos evolucionistas de finales del siglo XIX acerca de la antig¨¹edad terciaria de la humanidad suscit¨® intensas pol¨¦micas entre naturalistas, bi¨®logos y m¨¦dicos. En Espa a tambi¨¦n hubo adherentes y detractores, cuyas diatribas entraban en el contexto general de la cuesti¨®n evolucionista en nuestro pa¨ªs. El debate se anim¨® especialmente a ra¨ªz de la llegada a Valencia, en 1889, de un esqueleto humano f¨®sil procedente de la Argentina al que se le atribuyeron rasgos primitivos y una gran antig¨¹edad. A comienzos del siglo XX, una serie de publicaciones sobre dicho ejemplar reactivaron la pol¨¦mica, con el catedr¨¢tico de la Universidad de Valencia, Eduardo Bosc¨¢, como partidario de la atribuci¨®n de edad terciaria, y con el antagonismo destacado ante tal propuesta del m¨¦dico Faustino Barber¨¢ y de diversos cient¨ªficos jesuitas. Datos cient¨ªficos y argumentos ideol¨®gicos y religiosos se combinaron en la defensa de las posturas enfrentadas.
%K Evolutionism
%K Paleoanthropology
%K Fossil man
%K Valencia
%K Spain
%K Eduardo Bosc¨¢
%K Faustino Barber¨¢
%K Jesuits
%K 20th century
%K Evolucionismo
%K Paleoantropolog¨ªa
%K Hombre f¨®sil
%K Valencia
%K Espa a
%K Eduardo Bosc¨¢
%K Faustino Barber¨¢
%K Jesuitas
%K Siglo XX
%U http://asclepio.revistas.csic.es/index.php/asclepio/article/view/513/515