Fig. 4

The metaphor of a fitness landscape (commonly used in evolutionary biology and equally useful in cultural evolution science) to illustrate how progress in evolution education research might be inherently constrained to a lower-level potential that is defined by gene-focused conceptualizations of evolution, compared to the higher-level global potential that might present itself by embracing a more generalized, interdisciplinary conceptualization of evolution. Here, fitness peaks may correspond to varying degrees of cultural acceptance or depth of transferable conceptual understanding of core evolutionary theory. Figure adapted with permission from Jurgen Appelo: https://www.flickr.com/photos/jurgenappelo/with/5201851938/