News and ideas about the origin, age, and evolution of man in the Spanish journal Ibérica Authors Jesús Ignasi Català Gorgues Abstract Ibérica was a journal founded in 1913 by Jesuit priests of the Ebro Observatory, a centre of scientific research located in the environs of Tortosa (Catalonia).ts main purpose was scientific and technological vulgarization bymeans of brief current news, articles about specific subjects by specialists, book reviews, and other writings, that were published weekly featuring excellent typography and pictures. However, Ibérica was also a way to vindicate a substantial compatibility among science and Catholic faith. Evolution, especially when applied to the human species, was still a central question for that kind of apologetics, strongly pervaded by ideological and religious attitudes. The Jesuits remained as one of the most important bastions of antievolutionism in Spain, and new ideas about the animal nature of human being were systematically challenged by them in the pages of Ibérica.Key words: evolutionism, human palaeontology, scientific vulgarization, science and religion, Jesuits, 20th century, Spain, Catalonia Downloads PDF (Català) Published 2010-10-25 Issue Nova època, vol. 3 (1) : 2010 Section Articles License The intellectual property of articles belongs to the respective authors.On submitting articles for publication to the journal Actes d’Història de la Ciència i de la Tècnica, authors accept the following terms:Authors assign to Societat Catalana d’Història de la Ciència i de la Tècnica (a subsidiary of Institut d’Estudis Catalans) the rights of reproduction, communication to the public and distribution of the articles submitted for publication to Actes d’Història de la Ciència i de la Tècnica.Authors answer to Societat Catalana d’Història de la Ciència i de la Tècnica (SCHCT) for the authorship and originality of submitted articles.Authors are responsible for obtaining permission for the reproduction of all graphic material included in articles.SCHCT declines all liability for the possible infringement of intellectual property rights by authors.The contents published in the journal, unless otherwise stated in the text or in the graphic material, are subject to a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (by-nc-nd) 3.0 Spain licence, the complete text of which may be found at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/deed.en. Consequently, the general public is authorised to reproduce, distribute and communicate the work, provided that its authorship and the body publishing it are acknowledged, and that no commercial use and no derivative works are made of it.Actes d’Història de la Ciència i de la Tècnica is not responsible for the ideas and opinions expressed by the authors of the published articles.
