Alfonso L. Herrera: Controversy and Debates in Early Mexican Biology
The dawn of biology in Mexico was surrounded by strong debates in the institutions that tried to study this subject in the early twentieth century. Biology’s Mexican promoter and introducer, Alfonso L. Herrera, attempted to break with what he considered old-fashioned natural history, ...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2006 |
| País: | México |
| Institución: | EL COLEGIO DE MÉXICO |
| Repositorio: | Historia Mexicana |
| Idioma: | español |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:oai.historiamexicana.colmex.mx:article/1517 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://historiamexicana.colmex.mx/index.php/RHM/article/view/1517 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Mexico Alfonso L. Herrera natural sciences biology National Medical Institut 20th Century México ciencias naturales biología Instituto Médico Nacional siglo XX |
| Sumario: | The dawn of biology in Mexico was surrounded by strong debates in the institutions that tried to study this subject in the early twentieth century. Biology’s Mexican promoter and introducer, Alfonso L. Herrera, attempted to break with what he considered old-fashioned natural history, in order to begin studying the great problems of life, among them, its origin and evolution. This paper describes Herrera’s struggle, which was tightly intertwined with the social problems occuring in Mexico at the time. |
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