People in the United States are much less likely to accept Darwin's idea that humans evolved from apes than adults in other Western nations, a number of surveys show.
A new study of those surveys suggests that the main reason for this lies in a unique confluence of religion, politics, and the public understanding of biological science in the United States.
n the U.S., only 14 percent of adults thought that evolution was "definitely true," while about a third firmly rejected the idea.