Description: Engagingly written and deftly argued, God--or Gorilla offers original insights into the role of images in communicating--and miscommunicating--scientific ideas to the lay public.
Brief description: Constance Areson Clark is an associate professor of history at Worcester Polytechnic Institute.
Review Quotes: Clark's study has additional significance as a contribution to intellectual history. Readers will find familiar themes of evolution--natural selection, chance and design, and missing links--and the book shows the fate of these issues when they entered the public arena.
--J. David Hoeveler, History: Reviews of New Books