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God—or Gorilla: Images of Evolution in the Jazz Age. By Constance Areson Clark. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008. xviii, 289 pp. $35.00, ISBN 978-0-8018-8825-0.)
After more than eighty years, the Scopes trial continues to astound and intrigue. The many shelves of historical treatments of this event, however, would suggest that fundamentally new perspectives on the trial are no longer possible. God—or Gorilla dramatically refutes this suggestion. Not only has Constance Areson Clark revealed an additional chapter in the Scopes trial story, but she has also provided keen insight on scientists' efforts to broadcast their work to the general public. . . .
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