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<p>when Darwin Called His Second Book <i>the Descent Of Man</i> Instead Of <i>the Ascent Of Man</i> He Was Thinking Of His Progeny. <p> So Declares Darwin's Great-great Grandson Matthew Chapman As He Leaves Behind His Stressful Career As A Hollywood Screenwriter And Travels To Dayton, Tennessee, Where In 1925 Creationist Opposition To The Teaching Of Evolution In Schools Was Played Out In A Famous Legal Drama, The So-called Scopes Monkey Trial. <p> The Purpose Of This Journey Is To See If Opinions Have Changed In The Seventy-five Intervening Years. A Defiant Atheist, Chapman Records His Encounters In The South, Where He Is Confronted Not Only By The Fundamentalists Still Trying To Banish The Theory Of Evolution But Also, Ironically, By His Own Spiritual Malaise. The Outward Journey Becomes An Inward Quest, A Tragicomic Accidental Memoir. <p> First There Was Charles Darwin, Two Yards Long And Nobody's Fool. Then There Was His Son, My Great-grandfather, Sir Francis Darwin, An Eminent Botanist. Then Came My Grandmother Frances, A Modest Poet Who Spent A Considerable Amount Of Time In Rest-homes For Depression. From Her Issued My Beloved Mother, Clare, Who Was Extremely Short, Failed T
Who reads Trials of the Monkey : an Accidental Memoir?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Matthew Chapman
- Publisher
- New York: Picador USA
- Published
- 2002
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780312300784
- Category
- science
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Fiction, Memoir
- Rating
- 3.66 / 5 (116 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14