title: [Didn't it matter to him absolutely?: Juan Vilanova and the controversy about tertiary man].
abstract: During the founding period of palaeoanthropology, the postulate about tertiary age of humankind was an outstanding subject. First proposals were based on supposed proofs about ancient lithical industry (eoliths). Some discoveries of human fossil remains complicated that issue, because they were dated as pliocene or oldest. This controversy about so-called "tertiary man" soon arrived to Spain. Juan Vilanova y Piera, palaeontologist and professor at Madrid, dealt with it from an antievolutionist point of view. When a human fossil skeleton, included in the Botet's collections, with several apparently primitive traits arrived to Valencia from Argentina, Vilanova got reasserted and exposed his ideas about this question more intensely.
authors.forename: Jesús I
authors.initials: JI
authors.lastname: Catalá Gorgues
mesh_terms: D000883:Anthropology / Q000193:education / Q000266:history; D001118:Argentina / Q000208:ethnology; D036262:Empirical Research; D019143:Evolution, Molecular; D005580:Fossils; D049672:History, 19th Century; D006801:Humans; D044382:Population Groups / Q000208:ethnology / Q000266:history; D012863:Skeleton; D013030:Spain / Q000208:ethnology