Pelayo Francisco
Instituto de Historia, CCHS, CSIC.
Asclepio. 2009;61(2):101-28. doi: 10.3989/asclepio.2009.v61.i2.286.
Centenary celebrations of Darwin's birth were held in Valencia and Lorca in 1909. Fifty years later, the meetings and the publications of the Spanish scientific community on the occasion of the centenary of the publication of "On the Origin of Species" showed a proximity and an acceptance towards the theses of the evolutionary modern synthesis. During the first half of the 20th century, there were controversies in Spain between the Darwinian and anti-Darwinian positions. In addition, non-Darwinian evolutionary theories were spread and supported. Though the assumptions of the synthetic theory of evolution were soon known, commented and discussed, the majority trend in the 40s and 50s was to incline towards finalist and vitalist interpretations of evolution.
1909年，达尔文诞辰一百周年纪念活动在巴伦西亚和洛尔卡举行。五十年后，西班牙科学界在《物种起源》出版一百周年之际举行的会议和发表的出版物显示出对进化现代综合论观点的贴近和接受。在20世纪上半叶，西班牙国内在达尔文主义和反达尔文主义立场之间存在争议。此外，非达尔文主义的进化理论也得以传播并获得支持。尽管进化综合理论的假设很快就为人所知、得到评论和讨论，但在40年代和50年代的主流趋势是倾向于对进化进行目的论和活力论的解释。
