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Fig. 1 | Evolution: Education and Outreach

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From: Educators of Prospective Teachers Hesitate to Embrace Evolution Due to Deficient Understanding of Science/Evolution and High Religiosity

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Percentage of New England general faculty (Gen Fac, white bars left), educators of prospective teachers (Edu, black bars center), and college students (Stu, white bars right) who consider one of the following explanations about the origin and development of life on Earth should be taught in science classes: a evolution and b equal time to evolution, creationism, intelligent design. Comparisons among groups: Chi-square = 23.968, df = 2, P ≤ 0.001; lowercase letters indicate sign test two-tail pair-wise comparisons P ≤ 0.05. Gen Fac, n = 241; Edu, n = 58; and Stu, n = 727

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