100 years after evolution went on trial, the Scopes case still reverberates

Anti-evolution books on sale in Dayton, Tenn., where teacher John Scopes was put on trial for teaching evolution in the famous 1925 "Monkey Trial."

One hundred years ago, the small town of Dayton, Tenn., became the unlikely stage for one of the most sensational trials in American history, over the teaching of Darwin's theory of evolution.

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