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God -- or gorilla : images of evolution in the jazz age / Constance Areson Clark.

Van Pelt Library GN281 .C513 2008
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Clark, Constance Areson, 1949-
Series:
Medicine, science, and religion in historical context
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Human beings--Origin.
Human beings.
Human evolution--Public opinion.
Human evolution.
Human evolution--Caricatures and cartoons.
Art and science.
Public opinion--United States--History--20th century.
Public opinion.
Caricatures and cartoons.
United States.
History.
United States--History--20th century.
Physical Description:
xvi, 289 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Place of Publication:
Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008.
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.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages [235]-280) and index.
ISBN:
9780801888250
0801888255
OCLC:
175054369

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