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Article: The instinct toward mercy: what Hopkins has to teach Darwin.(evolution biology teaching ban cases)
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- June 17, 2005
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This summer marks the eightieth anniversary of the famous (or, depending on one's viewpoint, infamous) "Monkey Trial," a landmark courtroom struggle whose legacy continues to roil American politics and public life. When the trial began in Dayton, Tennessee, on July 10,1925, spectators jostled each other not so much to glimpse John Scopes, the high-school biology teacher charged with violating a recently enacted ban on the teaching of evolution, as the celebrated combatants: Clarence Darrow, the renowned defense attorney, who represented Scopes; and William Jennings Bryan, the former "Boy Orator of the Platte" and three-time presidential candidate, who had joined the ...