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Table 7 The two ACORNS questions that were used in this project

From: Using human case studies to teach evolution in high school A.P. biology classrooms

Human or non-human

Question

Human evolution question

How would biologists explain how individual people alive today who can digest lactose originated within a population of people who were all lactose intolerant?

Non-human evolution question

How would biologists explain how some individuals of a mouse species that have claws originated within a population of a mouse species that lacked claws?