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  1. Excepting some specific efforts, most of the mainstream debate around the Americas’ settlement has been directed by specialists dealing with partial evidence. Thus, discussions have been confined to particular...

    Authors: Rolando González-José and Maria Cátira Bortolini
    Citation: Evolution: Education and Outreach 2011 4:337
  2. In this article, a summary of the geologic, paleontological, and human history of an area of the Atlantic coast in the Pampean plain, Argentina is discussed. This area presents very interesting characteristics...

    Authors: Cristina Bayón, Teresa Manera, Gustavo Politis and Silvia Aramayo
    Citation: Evolution: Education and Outreach 2011 4:335
  3. Beginning in the late sixteenth century, a series of Spanish missions was built in coastal Georgia and northern Florida. These missions were designed to convert and “civilize” the indigenous peoples of the reg...

    Authors: Christopher M. Stojanowski
    Citation: Evolution: Education and Outreach 2011 4:331
  4. The traditional view of American colonization during the late Pleistocene has largely been conditioned on early conceptions of the timing and extent of continental glaciations and the age and distribution of a...

    Authors: Dennis H. O’Rourke
    Citation: Evolution: Education and Outreach 2011 4:336
  5. In North America, public understanding and acceptance of evolution is alarmingly low. Moreover, acceptance rates are declining, and studies suggest that even students who have taken courses in evolution have t...

    Authors: Timothy R. Frasier and Carol Roderick
    Citation: Evolution: Education and Outreach 2011 4:327
  6. We explored the relationship between epistemological beliefs and nature of science in a college biology course. One hundred thirty-three college students participated in the research. Exploratory factor analys...

    Authors: Moon-Heum Cho, Deanna M. Lankford and Daniel J. Wescott
    Citation: Evolution: Education and Outreach 2011 4:324
  7. A unified theory of biology must incorporate a naturalistic explanation for the origin of life, namely that given certain conditions, it was highly probable that life would originate. That theory, however, can...

    Authors: Daniel R. Brooks
    Citation: Evolution: Education and Outreach 2011 4:328
  8. A great number of research papers in the English literature of science education present difficulties pupils have in understanding natural selection. Studies show that children have essentialist and teleologic...

    Authors: Lucia Prinou, Lia Halkia and Constantine Skordoulis
    Citation: Evolution: Education and Outreach 2011 4:323
  9. The Evolutionary Studies (EvoS) Consortium and the academic programs born from its creation have been wildly successful in their initial ventures. These achievements are marked by feedback from across the EvoS...

    Authors: Glenn Geher, Benjamin Crosier, Haley Moss Dillon and Rosemarie Sokol Chang
    Citation: Evolution: Education and Outreach 2011 4:320
  10. The online learning and outreach resource Ask A Biologist (AAB; http://​www.​askabiologist.​org.​uk/​) has been operating for three years, and this paper reports our in...

    Authors: David W. E. Hone, Michael P. Taylor, David Wynick, Paolo Viscardi and Neil Gostling
    Citation: Evolution: Education and Outreach 2011 4:318
  11. EvoS is a consortium of evolutionary studies programs that can catalyze evolutionary training across the curriculum in higher education. This special issue of Evolution: Education and Outreach shows how the dictu...

    Authors: David Sloan Wilson, Glenn Geher, Jennifer Waldo and Rosemarie Sokol Chang
    Citation: Evolution: Education and Outreach 2011 4:319
  12. Evolution is a foundational organizing principle of the life sciences, and yet people still argue that it should be taught only in college, urging that it’s not necessary, too controversial, or too difficult t...

    Authors: Louise S. Mead and Glenn Branch
    Citation: Evolution: Education and Outreach 2011 4:316
  13. Representations are a critical way to communicate scientific knowledge. Systematists biologists are acknowledged as expert tree thinkers who can both read and build phylogenetic trees (e.g., cladograms) accura...

    Authors: Kristy Lynn Halverson
    Citation: Evolution: Education and Outreach 2011 4:307
  14. Authors: Niles Eldredge and Greg Eldredge
    Citation: Evolution: Education and Outreach 2011 4:314
  15. The learning of evolutionary theory typically takes place in the classroom or laboratory. Students of these traditional approaches often leave with the notion that applications of evolutionary theory have litt...

    Authors: Steven M. Platek, Glenn Geher, Leslie Heywood, Hamilton Stapell, J. Ryan Porter and Tia Y. Walters
    Citation: Evolution: Education and Outreach 2011 4:309
  16. Education is broadly defined as the set of processes by which each generation of human beings acquires the culture in which they grow up. By this definition, education is part and parcel of our biological make...

    Authors: Peter Gray
    Citation: Evolution: Education and Outreach 2011 4:306
  17. Pre-medical students are certainly a widely varied group, with different motivations and experiences, different skills sets and interests. However, they often tend to approach their undergraduate education as ...

    Authors: Jennifer Turner Waldo and Stacy A. Greagor
    Citation: Evolution: Education and Outreach 2011 4:308
  18. Nikolaas Tinbergen provided an elegantly comprehensive guide to behavioral research with his Four Questions. Unsurprisingly, these questions summarize the different aspects that are vital to an evolutionary pe...

    Authors: Daniel Tumminelli O’Brien and Andrew C. Gallup
    Citation: Evolution: Education and Outreach 2011 4:305
  19. The eclipse of Darwinism began to end in the 1980s and hangs in the balance today. We need an Extended Synthesis, using “extension” metaphorically. We must extend back in time to recover important aspects of D...

    Authors: Daniel R. Brooks
    Citation: Evolution: Education and Outreach 2011 4:304
  20. The theory of natural selection has been vital in unifying the biological sciences and their research with a single testable metatheory. Despite a plethora of research supporting natural selection, teaching th...

    Authors: Ashley C. King and Tomas Cabeza de Baca
    Citation: Evolution: Education and Outreach 2011 4:310
  21. Evolutionary Studies (EvoS) programs, conceived of in the terms elaborated by David Sloan Wilson in his book Evolution for Everyone, are intrinsically interdisciplinary. They are also intended to bring individual...

    Authors: Adam M. Goldstein
    Citation: Evolution: Education and Outreach 2011 4:312
  22. Humans use metaphors to explore their relationship with nature. Our ability to make and understand metaphors appears to be an automatic cognitive process, one that likely evolved along with our ability to crea...

    Authors: Kathleen Robin Hart and John H. Long Jr
    Citation: Evolution: Education and Outreach 2011 4:301
  23. Mass media has always been a prominent source of science information for the general public, and more so than academic journals. The diversification of media with specialized online outlets and the participato...

    Authors: Maryanne L. Fisher, Daniel J. Kruger and Justin R. Garcia
    Citation: Evolution: Education and Outreach 2011 4:302
  24. By simulating evolution through performance, students become physically, as well as mentally, engaged in thinking about evolutionary concepts. This instructional strategy redirects tension around the subject t...

    Authors: Rebecca M. Price
    Citation: Evolution: Education and Outreach 2010 4:300
  25. Public acceptance of evolution in Northeastern U.S. is the highest nationwide, only 59%. Here, we compare perspectives about evolution, creationism, intelligent design (ID), and religiosity between highly educ...

    Authors: Guillermo Paz-y-Miño C. and Avelina Espinosa
    Citation: Evolution: Education and Outreach 2010 4:298
  26. The present survey was designed to assess predominant regional belief systems and the roles these beliefs play in science understanding and attitudes, and curricular effectiveness in colleges and universities....

    Authors: Patricia H. Hawley, Stephen D. Short, Luke A. McCune, Mark R. Osman and Todd D. Little
    Citation: Evolution: Education and Outreach 2010 4:294
  27. Issues regarding understanding of evolution and resistance to evolution education in the United States are of key importance to biology educators at all levels. While research has measured student views toward...

    Authors: Justin W. Rice, Joanne K. Olson and James T. Colbert
    Citation: Evolution: Education and Outreach 2010 4:289
  28. Human beings are predisposed to think of evolution as teleological—i.e., having a purpose or directive principle—and the ways scientists talk about natural selection can feed this predisposition. This work exa...

    Authors: Leonardo Martín González Galli and Elsa N. Meinardi
    Citation: Evolution: Education and Outreach 2010 4:272
  29. It has been over 50 years since Willi Hennig proposed a new method for determining genealogical relationships among species, which he called phylogenetic systematics. Many people, however, still approach the m...

    Authors: Deborah A. McLennan
    Citation: Evolution: Education and Outreach 2010 3:273

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