Eugenie C Scott
Biographic Data
| ID | 3617112 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Eugenie C Scott |
| GIVEN NAMES | Eugenie C |
| FAMILY NAME | Scott |
| SIGNATURE | SCOTT E C |
| AFFILIATIONS | The National Center for Science Education, Inc., P.O. Box 9477, Berkeley, California 94709 |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 112 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 20 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
A 100-Year-Old Trial that is Still Relevant
In the not-too-distant past, a young teacher in a small town bravely stood against a new law banning the teaching of evolution. Defying the law, he taught his students evolution, and was ignominiou
Public Acceptance of Evolution
Countering Creationism with Drive-By Science
The Creation/Evolution Controversy
Evolution Devolves in Kansas
The Trouble with Science. Robin Dunbar
Antievolution and Creationism in the United States
Evolution is considered controversial by a substantial minority of Americans. Religious opposition explains this, but this opposition is comprised of a broad continuum of religious views. It runs from "young earth creationism" through "old earth creationism" (including "day-age," "gap," and "progressive creationism") to "theistic evolutionism." Historically, antievolutionists have attempted to ban evolution and to present it on an equal footing w…
Antievolutionism, scientific creationism, and physical anthropology
Antievolutionism is alive and well in the United States, as shown by public attitudes toward evolution and the factual truth of Biblical literalism. High percentages of college students do not accept evolution as a valid explanation of earth's history. One in three think humans and dinosaurs lived at the same time. Antievolutionism has had three phases: (1) “straight” antievolutionism, during which time the teaching of evolution was outlawed; (2)…
Anti-Evolutionism, Scientific Creationism, and Education
Anti-evolutionism is alive and well in 1986, and it is especially prominent in American education. I have received comments on my teaching evaluations to the effect that "Evolution is a lot of —." High school teachers report students. walking out when they begin discussing human evolution. According to "A Consumer's Guide to Biology Textbooks" (Washington: People for the American Way, 1985), censors of the Religious Right have sufficiently Pressu…
Fertility, Biology and Behavior
Science, Nutrition, Fat, and Policy
Supplementation of the diets of pregnant and nursing mothers in underdeveloped countries is sometimes criticized because more food for these women is seen as producing more body fat, shortened postpartum amenorrhea, and increased fertility. We argue that the link between body fat and shortened postpartum amenorrhea is based on a hypothesis that has not been corroborated. The critical-fat hypothesis is that menarche, maintenance of menstrual cycle…
Estimation of total water and fatness from weight and height
Mellits and Cheek have provided a regression equation which predicts total water, and by extension, fat, from weight and height of women. The equation has been used by many researchers as a convenient means to estimate fat when more complicated body composition estimation techniques are not possible. It is an essential component of evidence provided by Frisch for the critical fat hypothesis. The equation has not been validated on another sample, …
The Energetic Paradox of Human Running and Hominid Evolution [and Comments and Reply]
The energetic cost of running is relatively high in man. In spite of this, humans are adept endurance runners, capable of running down, for example, zebra and kangaroo. Distance running is made possible for man in part by an exceptional ability to dissipate exercise heat loads. Most mammals lose heat by panting, which is coupled to breathing and locomotor cycles during running. This interdependence may limit the effectiveness of panting as a mean…
Polygyny and Inheritance of Wealth [and Comments and Replies]
Cross-cultural data are used to test the hypotheses that (1) polygyny in humans is resource polygyny and (2) parents transfer wealth to male heirs when wealth increases the heirs' chance of obtaining multiple mates. A reinterpretation of Freud's Oedipus complex follows as an adjunct
Subsistence and dental pathology etiologies from prehistoric coastal Peru
The Concept of Race in the Latter Part of the 20th Century
The subspecies concept, as used by modern biologists, has little similarity to the outmoded typological, static, and nonevolutionary 19th century concept of race. During the 1960's and early 1970's, some anthropologists criticized the concept of race, sometimes confusing the 19th century view with the 20th. As a result, the biological concept of race has been rejected by many anthropologists as having no validity for the study of human variation.…
III. Evolutionary Theory
III. Evolutionary Theory
II. Genetics
II. Genetics
The Energetic Paradox of Human Running and Hominid Evolution [and Comments and Reply]
The energetic cost of running is relatively high in man. In spite of this, humans are adept endurance runners, capable of running down, for example, zebra and kangaroo. Distance running is made possible for man in part by an exceptional ability to dissipate exercise heat loads. Most mammals lose heat by panting, which is coupled to breathing and locomotor cycles during running. This interdependence may limit the effectiveness of panting as a mean…
Antievolution and Creationism in the United States
Evolution is considered controversial by a substantial minority of Americans. Religious opposition explains this, but this opposition is comprised of a broad continuum of religious views. It runs from "young earth creationism" through "old earth creationism" (including "day-age," "gap," and "progressive creationism") to "theistic evolutionism." Historically, antievolutionists have attempted to ban evolution and to present it on an equal footing w…
Science, Nutrition, Fat, and Policy
Supplementation of the diets of pregnant and nursing mothers in underdeveloped countries is sometimes criticized because more food for these women is seen as producing more body fat, shortened postpartum amenorrhea, and increased fertility. We argue that the link between body fat and shortened postpartum amenorrhea is based on a hypothesis that has not been corroborated. The critical-fat hypothesis is that menarche, maintenance of menstrual cycle…
Evolution Devolves in Kansas
Subsistence and dental pathology etiologies from prehistoric coastal Peru
The Concept of Race in the Latter Part of the 20th Century
The subspecies concept, as used by modern biologists, has little similarity to the outmoded typological, static, and nonevolutionary 19th century concept of race. During the 1960's and early 1970's, some anthropologists criticized the concept of race, sometimes confusing the 19th century view with the 20th. As a result, the biological concept of race has been rejected by many anthropologists as having no validity for the study of human variation.…
III. Evolutionary Theory
III. Evolutionary Theory
II. Genetics
II. Genetics
Subsistence and dental pathology etiologies from prehistoric coastal Peru
The Concept of Race in the Latter Part of the 20th Century
The subspecies concept, as used by modern biologists, has little similarity to the outmoded typological, static, and nonevolutionary 19th century concept of race. During the 1960's and early 1970's, some anthropologists criticized the concept of race, sometimes confusing the 19th century view with the 20th. As a result, the biological concept of race has been rejected by many anthropologists as having no validity for the study of human variation.…
Polygyny and Inheritance of Wealth [and Comments and Replies]
Cross-cultural data are used to test the hypotheses that (1) polygyny in humans is resource polygyny and (2) parents transfer wealth to male heirs when wealth increases the heirs' chance of obtaining multiple mates. A reinterpretation of Freud's Oedipus complex follows as an adjunct
Estimation of total water and fatness from weight and height
Mellits and Cheek have provided a regression equation which predicts total water, and by extension, fat, from weight and height of women. The equation has been used by many researchers as a convenient means to estimate fat when more complicated body composition estimation techniques are not possible. It is an essential component of evidence provided by Frisch for the critical fat hypothesis. The equation has not been validated on another sample, …
The Energetic Paradox of Human Running and Hominid Evolution [and Comments and Reply]
The energetic cost of running is relatively high in man. In spite of this, humans are adept endurance runners, capable of running down, for example, zebra and kangaroo. Distance running is made possible for man in part by an exceptional ability to dissipate exercise heat loads. Most mammals lose heat by panting, which is coupled to breathing and locomotor cycles during running. This interdependence may limit the effectiveness of panting as a mean…
Fertility, Biology and Behavior
Science, Nutrition, Fat, and Policy
Supplementation of the diets of pregnant and nursing mothers in underdeveloped countries is sometimes criticized because more food for these women is seen as producing more body fat, shortened postpartum amenorrhea, and increased fertility. We argue that the link between body fat and shortened postpartum amenorrhea is based on a hypothesis that has not been corroborated. The critical-fat hypothesis is that menarche, maintenance of menstrual cycle…
Anti-Evolutionism, Scientific Creationism, and Education
Anti-evolutionism is alive and well in 1986, and it is especially prominent in American education. I have received comments on my teaching evaluations to the effect that "Evolution is a lot of —." High school teachers report students. walking out when they begin discussing human evolution. According to "A Consumer's Guide to Biology Textbooks" (Washington: People for the American Way, 1985), censors of the Religious Right have sufficiently Pressu…
Antievolutionism, scientific creationism, and physical anthropology
Antievolutionism is alive and well in the United States, as shown by public attitudes toward evolution and the factual truth of Biblical literalism. High percentages of college students do not accept evolution as a valid explanation of earth's history. One in three think humans and dinosaurs lived at the same time. Antievolutionism has had three phases: (1) “straight” antievolutionism, during which time the teaching of evolution was outlawed; (2)…
Antievolution and Creationism in the United States
Evolution is considered controversial by a substantial minority of Americans. Religious opposition explains this, but this opposition is comprised of a broad continuum of religious views. It runs from "young earth creationism" through "old earth creationism" (including "day-age," "gap," and "progressive creationism") to "theistic evolutionism." Historically, antievolutionists have attempted to ban evolution and to present it on an equal footing w…
The Trouble with Science. Robin Dunbar
Evolution Devolves in Kansas
The Creation/Evolution Controversy
Public Acceptance of Evolution
Countering Creationism with Drive-By Science
A 100-Year-Old Trial that is Still Relevant
In the not-too-distant past, a young teacher in a small town bravely stood against a new law banning the teaching of evolution. Defying the law, he taught his students evolution, and was ignominiou
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