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Science 11 August 2006:
Vol. 313. no. 5788, pp. 765 - 766
DOI: 10.1126/science.1126746
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Policy Forum

SCIENCE COMMUNICATION:
Public Acceptance of Evolution

Jon D. Miller,1* Eugenie C. Scott,2 Shinji Okamoto3

The acceptance of evolution is lower in the United States than in Japan or Europe, largely because of widespread fundamentalism and the politicization of science in the United States.

1Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824-1115, USA.

2National Center for Science Education, Oakland, CA 94609, USA.

3Kobe University, Rokkaido, Hyogo, Japan.

*Author for correspondence. E-mail: jdmiller{at}msu.edu

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