A investigación en España sobre o evolucionismo humano (1936-1976) /
"The fundamental aim of this thesis was the research of the development of the concepts about human evolutionism that were produced in Spain between 1936 and 1976. The periodization was limited to the time of Franco due to objective reasons: firstly, because it is a closed time of the history o...
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| OCLC: | 64400522 |
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| Language: | Galician |
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| Format: | Thesis Software Monograph Note that CRL will digitize material from the collection when copyright allows. |
| Summary: | "The fundamental aim of this thesis was the research of the development of the concepts about human evolutionism that were produced in Spain between 1936 and 1976. The periodization was limited to the time of Franco due to objective reasons: firstly, because it is a closed time of the history of Spain; on the other hand, because of the political features of the aforementioned period. Moreover, beyond the historical justification, some objective reasons within the discursive complex subjected to analysis procured sense to the choice of this period. It is shown how as a result of the civil war the new political model meant a science control by the Catholic Church. However, during those forty years a long intellectual journey took place. It leads from the orthodox and literal creationism of the Bible (for example, the one defended by Xesús Ferro Couselo in "Genesis and the first dispersions of the peoples") to the Christian evolutionism (shown in the finalist discourse of many scientists, like Crusafont and Aguirre) or the secular evolutionism (adopted by the new generations of neopositivists scientists from the seventies on). The analysis of this discoursive complex includes from methodological questions and scientific research (the step forward in the field of human paleontology) to philosophical or even theological argumentations about the subject of the origin of mankind. In this way important conclusions are reached about scientific epistemology (the need for delimiting the scientific and non-scientific elements), the development of human paleontology (the preparation of research programmes, the analysis of the history of this science, the recognition of the mechanisms that allowed the construction of particular non-scientific explanations of the presence of mankind on the earth...), philosophy (delimitation and identification of the opposition between a scientific theory such as darwinism or orthogenesis and a philosophical doctrine such as evolutionism or finalism) or even theology (analysis and definition of creationism as opposed to evolutionism as non-contradictory, whereas fixicism is recogized as contradictory as opposed both to christian evolutinism and to disciplines like the theory of evolution by natural selection, sociobiology or the neutralist theory)." |
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| Physical Description: | CD-ROM. |
| Format: | System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. |
| ISBN: | 8481216801 (obra completa) 8481217433 |
| Place of Publication: | Spain. |