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Scopes Trial: In Dayton, Tennessee, high school biology teacher John T. Scopes is found guilty of teaching human evolution in class and fined $100.
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Scopes trial
1925 US legal case in Tennessee
The State of Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes, commonly known as the Scopes trial or Scopes Monkey Trial, was an American legal case from July 10 to July 21, 1925, in which a high school teacher, John T. Scopes, was accused of violating the Butler Act, a Tennessee state law which…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Dayton, Tennessee
City in Tennessee, United States
Dayton is a city in and the county seat of Rhea County, Tennessee, United States. As of the 2020 census, the city population was 7,065. The Dayton Urban Cluster includes developed areas adjacent to the city and extends south to Graysville.Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
John T. Scopes
American schoolteacher and Scopes Trial figure (1900–1970)
John Thomas Scopes was a teacher in Dayton, Tennessee, who was charged on May 5, 1925, with violating Tennessee's Butler Act, which prohibited the teaching of human evolution in Tennessee schools. He was tried in a case known as the Scopes trial, and was found guilty and fined…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Human evolution
Evolutionary process leading to anatomically modern humans
Homo sapiens is a distinct species of the hominid family of primates, which also includes all the great apes. Over their evolutionary history, humans gradually developed traits such as bipedalism, dexterity, and complex language, as well as interbreeding with other hominins,…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)