Civic Biology
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A Civic Biology: Presented in Problems (usually referred to as just Civic Biology) was a biology textbook written by George William Hunter, published in 1914. It is the book which the state of Tennessee required high school teachers to use in 1925 and is best known for its section about evolution that violated the Butler Act. Consequently, it was for supposedly teaching from this textbook that John T. Scopes was brought to trial in Dayton, Tennessee in the Scopes "Monkey" Trial. In addition to evolution, the book unambiguously supported ideas such as white supremacy and eugenics, both of which were very common to science and politics at the time when it was written.
References
- George William Hunter, A Civic Biology: presented in problems (New York: American Book Co., 1914).
External links
- [Excerpts from Civic Biology] (includes two pages on evolution of man and races)
- [An essay focusing on the eugenic content in Hunter's book, with excerpts at the end]
- [A "debunker" website which looks at some of the claims in Hunter's book]
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