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Feb. 21, 2009

Serious Monkey Business

In "Monkey Girl," author Edward Humes reminds us that Darwin’s thinking “remains as provocative today” as it was when he first published his landmark work 150 years ago.

FORUM COLUMN

By Elaine Elinson

This month has been full of renewed attention to Charles Darwin. There are celebrations of the 200th anniversary of his birth and of the 150th anniversary of the publication of "The Origin of Species," which transformed the world of science. It also brought a new lawsuit before the U. S. Supreme Court from a Christian school teacher in Roseville, charging that a UC Berkeley Web site about evolution violates the Const...

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