Furthermore, "agriculture" itself is an acknowledged evolutionary arena (Ross-Ibarra et al. 2007; Thrall et al. 2010) and the significance of interactions between the disciplines of evolution and agriculture is well recognized (Moyle and Muir 2010).
Undergraduate students (N = 109) played ACAGATATA at the start of a discipline on evolution, during a Science and Technology course at the Universidade Federal do ABC, Brazil.
For a more complete treatment of a discipline that has proved essential to the study of evolution, see the articles genetics, human and heredity.
Walter's diagram has been adapted here for the discipline of molecular evolution.
Learners new to the discipline sometimes think of evolution as a linear progression, from the simple to the complex, with humans as the end point.
Software Configuration Management (SCM) is the discipline of controlling the evolution of large and complex software systems.
Since college biology instructors commonly have degrees in biology or related sub-disciplines, we hypothesize that acceptance of evolution by instructors of the subject is more uniform at the college level and evolution instruction is more consistent across institutions.
As the National Science Teachers Association observes in its position statement on the teaching of evolution, "Scientific disciplines with a historical component, such as astronomy, geology, biology, and anthropology, cannot be taught with integrity if evolution is not emphasized.
These data suggest additional challenges to recruiting African American students into the sciences, and in particular, to disciplines that require an understanding of evolution, which can clearly conflict with many religious beliefs.
One would expect these presentations to vary given the substantive differences between the two sub-disciplines, as well as Linhart's (1997) finding that the definition of evolution differs between disciplines in the biological sciences.
