In trying biology adam r shapiro convincingly dispels many conventional assumptions about the 1925 scopes monkey trialmost view it as an event driven primarily by a conflict between science and religion countering this shapiro shows the importance of timing the scopes trial occurred at a crucial moment in the history of biology textbook publishing education reform in tennessee . Shapiro a trying biology the scopes trial textbooks an the scopes trial textbooks and the antievolution movement in american schools shapiro adam r isbn 9780226029450 kostenloser versand fur alle bucher mit versand und verkauf duch amazon. Trying biology the scopes trial textbooks and the antievolution movement in american schools english edition ebook adam r shapiro amazonde kindle shop. Trying biology could have been titled selling biology this book is more about the process of writing and selling high school textbooks particularly biology textbooks during the early twentieth century than about the infamous trial of john scopes for teaching the theory of human evolution in dayton tennessee from one of those texts in 1925. Trying biology the scopes trial textbooks and the antievolution movement in american schools by adam r shapiro university of chicago press chicago il usa 2013 193 pp isbn 978 0 226 02945 0