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Author Clark, Constance Areson, 1949-

Title God -- or gorilla : images of evolution in the jazz age / Constance Areson Clark
Published Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008

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 MELB  569.9 Cla/Gog  AVAILABLE
Description xvi, 289 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Series Medicine, science, and religion in historical context
Medicine, science, and religion in historical context.
Contents The cave man and the strenuous life -- The museum in the modern Babylon -- Nineteen twenty-two or thereabouts -- Saving the phenomena -- Unlikely infidels -- Stooping to conquer, and a hall full of elephants -- The pictures in our heads -- Scientists and the monkey trial -- Redeeming the caveman, and the irreverent funny pages
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [235]-280) and index
Subject Human beings -- Origin.
Human evolution -- Public opinion.
Human evolution -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Art and science.
Public opinion -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
SUBJECT United States -- History -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140291
LC no. 2007041258
ISBN 9780801888250 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0801888255 (hardcover : alk. paper)