The Nation - News from Feb. 18, 1985
People for the American Way, a liberal lobbying group, charged that many high school biology textbooks have evolved into watered-down tomes as publishers cave in to pressure from fundamentalists. The group, which has battled with advocates of the biblical theory of creation for several years, complained that three of the 18 textbooks it examined made no mention of evolution, the scientific theory that humans evolved from apes.
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