Biology Textbook Database (Piltdown)
Textbooks that mention or picture Piltdown noted by an ‘X’ in the third column.
Textbooks that mention or picture Piltdown noted by an ‘X’ in the third column.
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Dutch botanist Hugo de Vries gained global fame in the first decades of the twentieth century for being the guy who finally figured out how evolution worked. Today he is all but forgotten. Should he stay that way? Or are their good reasons to remember “dead end” scientific theories and the people who loved them?
Database of mentions and relative priority of the term eugenics in American high school biology textbooks published between 1907 and 1969.
Corrected February 2, 2010 This table includes data on the inclusion (or not) of variations of Ernst Haeckel’s grid of vertebrate embryos in 91 American high school and college biology textbooks published between 1907 and 1969.
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