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Biology textbooks and the decentering of the Scopes Trial

Adam R. Shapiro: Trying biology: The Scopes Trial, textbooks, and the antievolution movement in American schools. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2013, 193pp, $35.00 HB

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Trollinger, W.V. Biology textbooks and the decentering of the Scopes Trial. Metascience 24, 393–396 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11016-015-9993-0

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