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  1. National institutes and education initiatives emphasize the need to prepare future biologists to apply discoveries in science towards solving problems that are both social and scientific in nature. Research fr...

    Authors: Erin Fried, Andrew Martin, Alexa Esler, Antoine Tran and Lisa Corwin
    Citation: Evolution: Education and Outreach 2020 13:22
  2. This is a review of Mitonuclear Ecology by Geoffrey E. Hill, which discusses the potential role of mitochondrial-nuclear (mitonuclear) interactions in key evolutionary processes.

    Authors: Logan W. Cole
    Citation: Evolution: Education and Outreach 2020 13:21
  3. A phylogeny depicts the hypothesized evolutionary relationships among taxa as a nested hierarchical branching diagram. Interpreting the relationships among taxa on a phylogeny is part of a set of skills called...

    Authors: Luke D. Blacquiere, Allia Fawaz and William J. Hoese
    Citation: Evolution: Education and Outreach 2020 13:20
  4. Many individuals reject evolutionary theory due to a perceived conflict with their religious beliefs. To bridge this gap, educators have attempted different approaches including approaching evolution rejection...

    Authors: Ethan R. Tolman, Daniel G. Ferguson, Mark Mann, April Maskiewicz Cordero and Jamie L. Jensen
    Citation: Evolution: Education and Outreach 2020 13:19
  5. Relatively little information is available regarding the level of acceptance of evolution and knowledge about evolution in different educational settings in Europe. The aim of the present study is to fill this...

    Authors: Paul Kuschmierz, Andra Meneganzin, Rianne Pinxten, Telmo Pievani, Dragana Cvetković, Evangelia Mavrikaki, Dittmar Graf and Anna Beniermann
    Citation: Evolution: Education and Outreach 2020 13:18
  6. Thomas Seeley reviews a half century of research, mostly conducted by himself and his colleagues on the ecology, evolution, and natural history of wild honey bees. He provides insights into how bees reproduce,...

    Authors: Norman A. Johnson
    Citation: Evolution: Education and Outreach 2020 13:17
  7. Over a decade ago, the first nationally representative probability survey concerning the teaching of evolution revealed disquieting facts about evolution education in the United States. This 2007 survey found ...

    Authors: Eric Plutzer, Glenn Branch and Ann Reid
    Citation: Evolution: Education and Outreach 2020 13:14
  8. If an instructional environment that is conducive to learning generally requires the development of good student–teacher relationships, then a classroom atmosphere of trust is an especially important considera...

    Authors: Lawrence C. Scharmann and Bette L. Grauer
    Citation: Evolution: Education and Outreach 2020 13:13
  9. Despite the importance of understanding the mechanism of natural selection for both academic success and everyday decision-making, this concept is one of the most challenging to learn in contemporary science. ...

    Authors: Sarah A. Brown, Samuel Ronfard and Deborah Kelemen
    Citation: Evolution: Education and Outreach 2020 13:12
  10. Students frequently explain evolutionary processes, such as adaptation, in a teleological way. These teleological explanations may involve goal-directedness, purpose, an external designer or the internal needs...

    Authors: Helge Gresch
    Citation: Evolution: Education and Outreach 2020 13:10
  11. The development of creationism to its multiple modern forms has been made possible in part by its appropriation and misuse of mainstream scientific terms. Here we illustrate how anti-evolutionary advocates hav...

    Authors: R. Joel Duff, Thomas R. Beatman and David S. MacMillan III
    Citation: Evolution: Education and Outreach 2020 13:9
  12. This is a review of Bruce MacFadden’s Broader Impacts of Science on Society. Here, MacFadden suggests how scientists should, and how the National Science Foundation tries to, spread interest in and understanding ...

    Authors: Egbert Giles Leigh Jr.
    Citation: Evolution: Education and Outreach 2020 13:8
  13. Regional academic conferences provide a variety of benefits to attendants, but hosting them can be costly. Here, we share benefits and drawbacks of hosting regional evolution meetings from the vantages of a te...

    Authors: Christopher Dana Lynn, Amanda Guitar, Chloe M. T. Keck and Amy L. Rector
    Citation: Evolution: Education and Outreach 2020 13:7
  14. Teleology is one of the critical aspects of students’ intuitive concepts about living beings and, specifically, their evolution. This cognitive bias imposes a substantial restriction on the process of learning...

    Authors: Leonardo González Galli, Gastón Peréz and Alma Adrianna Gómez Galindo
    Citation: Evolution: Education and Outreach 2020 13:6
  15. We provide a brief overview of Prosocial: Using Evolutionary Science to Build Productive, Equitable, and Collaborative Groups by Paul Atkins, David Sloan Wilson, and Steven Hayes. The book offers a range of promi...

    Authors: Dustin Eirdosh and Susan Hanisch
    Citation: Evolution: Education and Outreach 2020 13:5
  16. We describe the ubiquity of teleological language and thinking throughout biology, as a context for understanding how students think about evolution, as well. Examples can be found in molecular biology, physio...

    Authors: A. Werth and D. Allchin
    Citation: Evolution: Education and Outreach 2020 13:4
  17. Teleology, explaining the existence of a feature on the basis of what it does, is usually considered as an obstacle or misconception in evolution education. Researchers often use the adjective “teleological” t...

    Authors: Kostas Kampourakis
    Citation: Evolution: Education and Outreach 2020 13:1
  18. In 1956, evolutionary biologist J.B.S. Haldane posed a question to anthropologists: “Are the biological differences between human groups comparable with those between groups of domestic animals such as greyhou...

    Authors: Heather L. Norton, Ellen E. Quillen, Abigail W. Bigham, Laurel N. Pearson and Holly Dunsworth
    Citation: Evolution: Education and Outreach 2019 12:17
  19. In his magnum opus, Natural History: General and Particular, Count Buffon, one of the leading natural historians of the 18th century, argued that all life in the New World, particularly North America, was degener...

    Authors: Lee Alan Dugatkin
    Citation: Evolution: Education and Outreach 2019 12:15
  20. To realize the promise of the Next Generation Science Standards, educators require new three-dimensional, phenomenon-based curriculum materials. We describe and report on pilot test results from such a resource—E...

    Authors: Sheila A. Homburger, Dina Drits-Esser, Molly Malone, Kevin Pompei, Kagan Breitenbach, Ryan D. Perkins, Pete C. Anderson, Nicola C. Barber, Amy J. Hawkins, Sam Katz, Max Kelly, Harmony Starr, Kristin M. Bass, Jo Ellen Roseman, Joseph Hardcastle, George DeBoer…
    Citation: Evolution: Education and Outreach 2019 12:13
  21. Evolution is a central, unifying theory for all of life science, yet the subject is poorly represented in most secondary-school biology courses, especially in the United States. One challenge to learning evolu...

    Authors: Vaughn S. Cooper, Taylor M. Warren, Abigail M. Matela, Michael Handwork and Shani Scarponi
    Citation: Evolution: Education and Outreach 2019 12:12
  22. Charles Darwin viewed eyes as the epitome of evolution by natural selection, describing them as organs of extreme perfection and complication. The visual system is therefore fertile ground for teaching fundame...

    Authors: Samuel R. Gochman, Marilyn Morano Lord, Naman Goyal, Kristie Chow, Benjamin K. Cooper, Lauren K. Gray, Stephanie X. Guo, Kylie A. Hill, Stephen K. Liao, Shiyao Peng, Hyun J. Seong, Alma Wang, Eun K. Yoon, Shirley Zhang, Erica Lobel, Tim Tregubov…
    Citation: Evolution: Education and Outreach 2019 12:9
  23. Macroevolutionary time is a difficult idea to grasp and is considered to be a threshold concept in teaching and learning evolution. One way of addressing this subject is to use animations that represent evolut...

    Authors: Jörgen Ingemar Stenlund and Lena Anna Elisabet Tibell
    Citation: Evolution: Education and Outreach 2019 12:8
  24. Misunderstandings of the nature of science (NOS) contribute greatly to resistance to evolutionary theory especially among non-scientific audiences. Here we delineate three extended instructional examples that ...

    Authors: Craig E. Nelson, Lawrence C. Scharmann, Jean Beard and Lawrence I. Flammer
    Citation: Evolution: Education and Outreach 2019 12:6
  25. Despite widespread concern about the differential measurement of evolution acceptance among researchers, no one has systematically explored how instrument choice can impact research results and conclusions in ...

    Authors: M. Elizabeth Barnes, Hayley M. Dunlop, Emily A. Holt, Yi Zheng and Sara E. Brownell
    Citation: Evolution: Education and Outreach 2019 12:4
  26. The religious or cultural objections by many people to the teaching of evolution in high school biology classrooms can impact both students’ willingness to explore a scientific understanding of evolutionary th...

    Authors: Constance M. Bertka, Briana Pobiner, Paul Beardsley and William A. Watson
    Citation: Evolution: Education and Outreach 2019 12:3
  27. Understanding evolution is critical to learning biology, but few college instructors take advantage of the body of peer-reviewed literature that can inform evolution teaching and assessment. Here we summarize ...

    Authors: Robert E. Furrow and Jeremy L. Hsu
    Citation: Evolution: Education and Outreach 2019 12:2
  28. Evolution education research has focused on biology populations, while other disciplines organized around evolutionary theory—such as biological anthropology—remain understudied. Cognitive science and educatio...

    Authors: Elizabeth P. Beggrow and Gena C. Sbeglia
    Citation: Evolution: Education and Outreach 2019 12:1
  29. The evolution education research community has defined the construct of “evolution acceptance” in different ways and measured it using different instruments. One of these instruments—the GAENE—has not been ana...

    Authors: Gena C. Sbeglia and Ross H. Nehm
    Citation: Evolution: Education and Outreach 2018 11:18
  30. Current direct Likert measures for evolution acceptance include the MATE, GAENE, and I-SEA. Pros and cons of each of these instruments have been debated, and yet there is a dearth of research teasing out their...

    Authors: William L. Romine, Amber N. Todd and Emily M. Walter
    Citation: Evolution: Education and Outreach 2018 11:17
  31. For the last 59 years a team of Russian geneticists led by Lyudmila Trut have been running one of the most important biology experiments of the 20th, and now 21st, century. The experiment was the brainchild of...

    Authors: Lee Alan Dugatkin
    Citation: Evolution: Education and Outreach 2018 11:16
  32. Students’ knowledge of scientific principles of evolution is often inadequate, despite its recognized importance for understanding biology. Moreover, difficulties associated with underlying abstract concepts s...

    Authors: Daniela Fiedler, Steffen Tröbst, Jörg Großschedl and Ute Harms
    Citation: Evolution: Education and Outreach 2018 11:15
  33. In this article, I provide an analysis of my work (1985–present) with non-major biology students and science teacher candidates in developing strategies for teaching and enhancing learning with respect to evol...

    Authors: Lawrence C. Scharmann
    Citation: Evolution: Education and Outreach 2018 11:14
  34. This is a review of Ryan’s A Taste for the Beautiful and Prum’s The Evolution of Beauty, two books that show how sexual selection by female choice can favor the evolution of beauty.

    Authors: Egbert Giles Leigh Jr
    Citation: Evolution: Education and Outreach 2018 11:13

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