| Scopes trial 
 
 a 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
 • Topics:
 law, jurisprudence, evolution, organic evolution, phylogeny, phylogenesis
 • Hypernyms:
 trial
 
 
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