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Fig. 9 | 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

Fig. 9

Percentage of New England general faculty (Gen Fac), educators of prospective teachers (Edu), and college students (Stu) who consider the following statements about evolution to be either true (black part of the bar) or false (white part of the bar): a all current living organisms are descendants of common ancestors, which have evolved for thousands, millions, or billions of years; b humans are apes, relatives of chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, and orangutans; c the hominid (human lineage) fossil record is so poor that scientists cannot tell with confidence that modern humans evolved from ancestral forms; d the origin of the human mind and consciousness cannot be explained by evolution; and e the universe, our solar system and planet Earth are finely tuned to embrace human life. Comparisons within groups (asterisks indicate significance): a Chi-square = 5.101, df = 2, P = 0.078; b Chi-square = 7.907, df = 2, P = 0.019; c Chi-square = 11.212, df = 2, P = 0.004; d Chi-square = 11.714, df = 2, P = 0.003; e Chi-square = 16.392, df = 2, P ≤ 0.001. Lowercase letters indicate sign test two-tail pair-wise comparisons within groups P ≤ 0.05. Gen Fac, n = 221; Edu, n = 53; and Stu, n = 583

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