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Civic Biology was the science book that John T. Scopes used to teach his class the theory of evolution. Scopes later was put under arrest for teaching this theory, and breaking the Butler Act. // What is science? There are different theories of what science is. ... Look up book on Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... John Thomas Scopes (August 3, 1900 – October 21, 1970), a teacher in Dayton, Tennessee at the age of 24, was charged on May 25, 1925 with violating Tennessees Butler Act, which prohibited the teaching of evolution in Tennessee schools. ... This article is about biological evolution. ... The Butler Act was a 1925 Tennessee law forbidding the teaching of any evolutionary theory which indicated that man descended from lower orders of animals in public schools. ...


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Civic Center, San Francisco (154 words)
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A diagram from the biology text Scopes taught from.
Hunter was the author of "A Civic Biology," a practical text for teaching.
Hunter and his publisher revised "A Civic Biology" two years later, removing a title ("The Doctrine of Evolution"), charts that depict the process of evolution and all specific references to evolutionary theory.
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