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Daily Archives: May 15, 2009

The Case of the Disappearing Darwin

Textbook HistoryBy Ronald LadouceurMay 15, 20093 Comments

May 15, 2009 It’s a powerful symbol of capitulation: the straight on, serious portrait of Charles Darwin, the wizened, white bearded author of the Origin of Species and father of modern biology, was stripped from the frontispiece of a popular high school textbook, replaced by, of all things, a cartoon of the human digestive tract.…

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