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Nature 450, 1161 (20 December 2007) | doi:10.1038/4501161a; Published online 19 December 2007
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CERC in Developmental Immunology and Immunosenescence
- Dalhousie University
- Halifax, Nova Scotia
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- Heidelberg 69120 Germany
Taxonomy on trial
Henry Nicholls1
BOOK REVIEWED-Trying Leviathan: The Nineteenth-Century New York Court Case That Put a Whale on Trial and Challenged the Order of Nature
by D. Graham Burnett
Princeton University Press: 2007. 304 pp. $29.95, £17.95
When the Catholic Church put Galileo on trial for his heretic views, man's position in the Universe was at stake. When schoolteacher John Scopes entered a Tennessee courtroom in 1925 for violating the state's anti-evolution statute, the issue was man's relationship to the animal kingdom.
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