Summary: In the decades of
1930 and 1940, biology met a broad consensus on the issue of evolution, developed the synthetic theory of evolution, among other things, revalidaba the theory of Darwinian natural selection. The timing of pregnancy and dissemination of this theory fu very inauspicious in Spain and I agree that the Civil War (1936-1939) and his post-war, in which the prevailing ideology national Catholic showed his aversion to evolutionism (especially Darwinian or neodarwinista) . This thesis explores the route of the debate and ideas neodarwinistas after the war. Despite the exclusion, some paleontologists, Bermudo Melendez (1912-1999) and Miquel Cursafont (1910-1983), defended a finalist evolutionism and teísta who accepts an evolution directed whose final result was the human being. This concept opposed to the neodarwinista suffered a significant boost by the introduction of the thinking of French Jesuit priest and paleontologist Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. Nevertheless, these authors were accepting the core of the theory summarizes generated a debate on the issue of evolution in Congress (eg in the Cursillo International Paleontology in Sabadell during the fifties) and relaxed postures more orthodox the Catholic Church. The most significant development that led to the introduction of thought neodarwinista was the commemoration of the centennial of The Origin of Species (Darwin, 1859), in 1959, which was joined by a significant number of biologists at universities in Madrid and Barcelona. The legacy of this centennial came in the sixties, when re-published the works of Darwin, other works related to the thought neodarwinista-work on which stressed biochemist Faustino Cordon (1909-1999), including the new paleontológos incorporated in the discussion of reneged a simplistic finalismo (Emiliano Aguirre, n. 1925) and Evolution (Crusafont, Melendez and Aguirre, eds., 1966), exceptional collective work on this problem and containing a large number of articles without considerations finalists registered summarizes the theory.
