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The Butler Act prohibits the teaching of human evolution in Tennessee.
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Butler Act
1925 Tennessee state law prohibiting the teaching of evolution in schools
The Butler Act was a 1925 Tennessee law prohibiting public school teachers from denying the book of Genesis account of humankind's origin. The law also prevented the teaching of the evolution of humans from what it referred to as lower orders of animals in place of the Biblical…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)
Tennessee
U.S. state
Tennessee, officially the State of Tennessee, is a landlocked state in the Southeastern region of the United States. It borders Kentucky to the north, Virginia to the northeast, North Carolina to the east, Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi to the south, Arkansas to the…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)