Creationists Are Evolving their Anti-Evolution Tactics (VIDEO)

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

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Evolutionary history of some key traits in antievolution bills. Fifteen traits are presented; slide 14 corresponds to Figure 1 of the main paper, and slide 15 shows the US state for each policy. The raw data for these trait maps (and also character maps for 400+ characters) is available in the paper's Supplementary Data. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Dec. 17, 2015, issue of Science online, published by AAAS. The paper, by Nicholas Joseph Matzke at the Australian National University in Canberra, ACT, Australia, and colleagues was titled, "The evolution of antievolution policies after Kitzmiller v. Dover."

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Nicholas J. Matzke

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