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A Civic Biology The Original 1914 Edition at the Heart of the "Scope's Monkey Trial"

George W Hunter

About a hundred years ago, it was generally agreed that evolution and Darwinism logically entailed eliminating weak humans from the gene pool, either outright by killing them, or by sterilization or segregation. This view was so common, it was in the actual science text books which were placed in hi...

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This was the state-approved high school biology textbook that John Scopes used, which discussed evolution as a scientific fact.

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Hand me the textbook, Fred. Robinson passes you a copy of the high school biology textbook he sells in the store.

— Episode: Evolution on Trial | A Clash of Giants |...

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This was the state-approved high school biology textbook that John Scopes used, which discussed evolution as a scientific fact.

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Hand me the textbook, Fred. Robinson passes you a copy of the high school biology textbook he sells in the store.

But it turned out that he had taught evolution while filling in as a substitute for the regular biology instructor when he was sick. And Scopes confirmed that he had used the state-approved textbook, Hunter's Civic Biology, which discussed evolution as a scientific fact.

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