Thursday, August 7, 2008

Teaching Evolution

Here is a very nice site for teaching evolution from the University of California Museum of Paleontology. It is geared for K-12 science teachers and contains specific lesson plans for every grade level. Check out this comic explaining fitness.

4 comments:

  1. Excellent. I especially liked the way the comic shows exactly why we would not expect to see sneaking become the most common behavior. That is one of the hardest aspects of evolutionary biology to get across to laymen.

    Dave Wisker

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  2. Thanks for the plug! (I wrote the historical materal for the site.)

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  3. Carl, you are everywhere... is your middle name Zelig?

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  4. Hello

    Find “Pierre Trémaux”

    Trémaux on species: A theory of allopatric speciation (and punctuated equilibrium) before Wagner

    http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/archive/00003806/

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