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.

Posted by John Dennehy at 8:27 AM

4 comments:

  1. AnonymousThursday, August 7, 2008 at 10:45:00 AM EDT

    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. CarlThursday, August 7, 2008 at 1:42:00 PM EDT

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

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  3. John DennehyThursday, August 7, 2008 at 1:51:00 PM EDT

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

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  4. AnonymousFriday, August 29, 2008 at 5:59:00 AM EDT

    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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