La circulación del darwinismo en el Ecuador (1870-1874)

Resumen

In 1871, the German Jesuit Theodor Wolf began broadcasting Darwinism in Ecuador through the geology and paleontology classes he taught at the Polytechnic Institute. He exhibited a conciliatory position between Evolution and Catholicism in the context of a state that promoted cohesion and national identity through the Catholic morality and science as a vehicle for progress. In this article discusses some teachings attributed as the reason why Wolf separated from the Polytechnic Institute and the Jesuit Order in 1874, as part of a larger controversy, in which Darwinism was a decisive factor.