January 2022
The teaching of evolution was the subject of intense controversy in the United States in the first decades of the twentieth century. Both the validity of the theory and its ethical, political and religious implications were in dispute.
This article by Henrique Rodrigues Caldeira, Doctoral candidate at the History Department of Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais and Ana Carolina Vimieiro Gomes, Professor at the same departament, analyzes a magazine intended to popularize science in this context, Evolution: a Journal of Nature (1927-1938). The aim of this publication was to promote evolutionary thinking in a specific context: the controversy over teaching evolution in schools in the United States in the early twentieth century.
The article The adaptation of evolutionary thinking in its public circulation: the case of “Evolution: a Journal of Nature,” 1927-1938″ seeks to illustrate the mutability of the concept of evolution, as it was presented during the years in which Evolution was published.
“From article to article, from editorial to editorial, the concept was transformed, adapting to the specific context in which it was being evoked, answering the questions that were more urgent at that time and ignoring elements considered of little use or unfavorable in public dispute.”
Caldeira, Henrique Rodrigues e Gomes, Ana Carolina Vimieiro. The adaptation of
evolutionary thinking in its public circulation: the case of “Evolution: a Journal of
Nature,” 1927-1938, 1927-1938. História, Ciências, Saúde-Manguinhos [online]. 2021, v. 28, n. 4 [Acessado 14 Janeiro 2022] , pp. 961-981.
