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John Scopes  

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  • John Scopes was the defendant in the 1925 case State of Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes, a landmark in the contentious history of evolution education in the United States. Scopes was born on August 3, 1900, in Paducah, Kentucky. [Source: Encyclopedia of Anthropology; Scopes, John (1900–1970)]

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