In a 1993 Gallup poll, 47 per cent of the American public said they
believed that God had created man some time in the past 10 000 years, and only
11 per cent embraced natural evolution. In Darwinism comes to America, Ronald
Numbers traces—with merciful impartiality—the social and historical
background to these striking statistics. Published by Harvard University Press,
£11.95, ISBN 0674193121.
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