Lotsa buzz around the web about Edward Humes’ Monkey Girl: Evolution, Education, Religion, and the Battle for America’s Soul, just released today.

From top science blogger PZ Myers:

Oh but I am dragging this morning. Have you ever done that thing where you start reading a book and you don’t want to put it down, and eventually you realize it’s late and you need to get some sleep, so you go to bed but you can’t sleep anyway so you get up and finish the whole book? And then you get a couple hours of sleep before you have to get up again? And your whole day is like trudging through molasses afterwards? That’s me.

The book is Monkey Girl: Evolution, Education, Religion, and the Battle for America’s Soul by Edward Humes, and from the title I think you can guess why I’d find it engrossing. But it’s more than just a copacetic subject, though: this book reads like a novel…

Myers’ post draws a slew of comments, too.

Keep reading: Monkey Girl blog, RedStateRabble, ScienceDude, The York Dispatch, 411, The Panda’s Thumb.

* Update: The LA Times Book Review and Chicago Tribune weigh in. Newsweek previews Darwin Day. Read an excerpt here.