In 1926, a Russian biologist tried to create a human-chimpanzee hybrid

Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection, published in the mid-19th century, challenged the belief that all living creatures were created by God. Many religious critics regarded the idea that humans and other apes shared evolutionary ancestry as blasphemous, particularly in the evangelical United States.By the early 20th century, public debate over evolution reached a fever pitch. In 1925, a young high school teacher named John Thomas Scopes was famously prosecuted for violating a