About John Alexander Moore
John Alexander Moore, American zoologist and academic (died 2002) Four years later his parents divorced and Moore traveled with his mother first to Carson City, Nevada, and Oakland, California, until she remarried and moved the family to Markham, Virginia, two years after her divorce. Although the schools he attended at the time were not the best, Moore's location in the Blue Ridge Mountains kindled his interest in birds from a young age; Moore published his first academic article in The Auk at age 15. Moore became a vocal opponent of creationism.
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