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ncse-ngo-9903		Evolution for John Doe, Part 1 | National Center for Science Education			.html	text/html	1294	131	72	Evolution for John Doe, Part 1 | National Center for Science Education "Apparently biologists know so much of the details that they can not [sic] write a brief account of the whole theory." In the year before his book's publication, "I grew so desperate as to read a number of the standard works of evolution," and Evolution for John Doe represents his attempt to present a digest of them, "as if I were telling a friend about the knowledge that is so new and imperfect in my mind." He was not alone in seeing the need for a popular treatment of evolution. (All these sentences appear verbatim in the book, but not in a bulleted list as above.) Ward not only lists these misconceptions, but also explains how Evolution for John Doe attempts to defuse them.	./cache/ncse-ngo-9903.html	./txt/ncse-ngo-9903.txt