Trial and Error

Trial and Error deals with the history of the teaching of evolution in American high schools and with the continuing controversy over `creationism' and evolution. The controversy has been a political issue, particularly in the South, and climaxed first in the famous `monkey trial' in Tennessee in the mid 1920s and later in the 1970s in the unsuccessful attempt of several states to impose the teaching of `creationism' alongside Darwin's theory of evolution.

The teaching of evolution in American high schools has been the subject of political and legal controversy. This new edition brings the history of the debate up to date.