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I'd like to see the PDF if you don't mind sending it, thanks!  -  Len




Len Adams
Health Promotion Specialist
Tacoma-Pierce County Health Dept.
3629 South D Street, MS:319
Tacoma, WA 98418-6813
253/798-6129


"Talent hits a target no one else can hit;
Genius hits a target no one else can see."

- Arthur Schopenhauer

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	In surveys conducted in 2005 American adults and  adults from 
32 European countries were asked humans developed from earlier 
species of animals (answer choices were  true, false, or not sure. 
The US respondents were second highest percentage who said the 
statement was "false"  and second lowest percentage who said "true" 
(only Turkey had more adults saying "false" than the US).

The paper requires a subscription but if you e-mail me I will send 
you a pdf. It is in  Science 11 August 2006: Vol. 313. no. 5788, pp. 
765 - 766


Also see, 
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/15/science/sciencespecial2/15evo.html?_r=1&oref=slogin 

Martin

Better living through evolution.
-- 
Martin Weiss, PhD
VP, Science
New York Hall of Science

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