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Scopes trial > noun, act
MeaningA highly publicized trial in 1925 when John Thomas Scopes violated a Tennessee state law by teaching evolution in high school. Scopes was prosecuted by William Jennings Bryan and defended by Clarence Darrow. Scopes was convicted but the verdict was later reversed.
Categorylaw, jurisprudence; evolution, organic evolution, phylogeny, phylogenesis
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