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Science 1 January 1999:
Vol. 283. no. 5398, p. 39
DOI: 10.1126/science.283.5398.39
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EVOLUTION:
Going to Extremes in America

A review by Peter J. Bowler

Darwinism Comes to America
Ronald L. Numbers
Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 1998. 222 pp. $39.95. ISBN 0-674-19311-3. Paper, $18.95. ISBN 0-674-19312-1.

This study of the reaction to Darwinism in the United States dispels many myths about the origin, development, and distribution of creationism. The reviewer notes Number's sophisticated analysis of the 19th-century debates and suggests that paying less attention to the 20th-century clashes between modern Darwinists and Fundamentalists might provide interesting perspectives on moderates who sought to reconcile modern science and traditional faith.
The author is in the School of Philosophical and Anthropological Studies, The Queen's University of Belfast, University Road, Belfast, BT7 1NN, Northern Ireland. E-mail: pbowler{at}clio.arts.qub.ac.uk

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