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Evolution: Education and Outreach

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Evolution: Education and Outreach coverEvolution: Education and Outreach promotes accurate understanding and comprehensive teaching of evolutionary theory for a wide audience. The journal explores the practical applications of evolutionary principles in daily life and the impact of evolutionary theory on culture and society throughout history.

Targeting K-16 students, teachers and scientists alike, the journal presents articles to aid members of these communities in the teaching of evolutionary theory. It connects teachers with scientists by adapting cutting-edge, peer reviewed articles for classroom use on varied instructional levels. The journal features multi-authored papers written by teachers and scientists and offers teaching tools such as unit and lesson plans and classroom activities, as well as additional online content.

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Dr. Mohamed Noor—Professor of Biology and Interim Dean of Arts & Sciences at Duke University—returns to Strange New Worlds to talk about how being a science consultant for the Star Trek universe inspired his latest paper, "Thinking outside Earth’s box—how might heredity and evolution differ on other worlds?"

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Call for Papers: Diversity and Inclusion in the Evolutionary Sciences

In many countries throughout the world, the scientific workforce engaged in the study of evolution fails to reflect the diversity of its citizens. Evolution: Education and Outreach invites submissions from scientific organizations, biologists, social scientists, and educators working to advance equity, diversity, and inclusion in the evolutionary sciences to advance understanding of and promoting solutions to this challenge.

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Evolution: Education and Outreach is now indexed by Scopus.

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Aims and scope

Evolution: Education and Outreach promotes accurate understanding and comprehensive teaching of evolutionary theory for a wide audience. Evolution: Education and Outreach addresses the question of why we should care about evolution by exploring the practical applications of evolutionary principles in daily life and the impact of evolutionary theory on culture and society throughout history.

Targeting K-16 students, teachers and scientists alike, the journal presents articles to aid members of these communities in the teaching of evolutionary theory. It connects teachers with scientists by adapting cutting-edge, peer reviewed articles for classroom use on varied instructional levels. The journal features multi-authored papers written by teachers and scientists and offers teaching tools such as unit and lesson plans and classroom activities, as well as additional online content such as podcasts and powerpoint presentations.

Evolution: Education and Outreach:

  • Promotes accurate understanding and comprehensive teaching of evolutionary theory for a wide audience
  • Explores the practical applications of evolutionary principles in daily life and the impact of evolutionary theory on culture and society throughout history
  • Offers teaching tools such as unit and lesson plans and classroom activities, as well as additional online content such as podcasts and powerpoint presentations
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  • Citation Impact 2023
    Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP): 1.530
    SCImago Journal Rank (SJR): 0.828

    Speed 2023
    Submission to first editorial decision (median days): 7
    Submission to acceptance (median days): 201

    Usage 2023
    Downloads: 1,029,742
    Altmetric mentions: 1,291

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  • ISSN: 1936-6434 (electronic)

ISSN: 1936-6426 (print)

Evolution: Education and Outreach

ISSN: 1936-6434

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