Some students already knew a little about evolution and were interested in learning more.
In response to an open-ended question on the student feedback form "How did your experience in learning about evolution through human examples compare with the other ways you've learned about evolution?", 286 student responses could be coded as positive (human examples were preferred), neutral, or negative.
Comments from teachers revealed that field-test students were engaged in learning about evolution in medicine and that students responded well to the inquiry-based approach.
And only then shall we be able to ascertain whether we'll encounter the same difficulties we have described in learning about evolution by natural selection (see Review of the Literature).
cIn contrast, the characters in Jay Hosler's Evolution: The Story of Life on Earth (Hosler 2011; reviewed in Branch 2012) are well-developed, speak in ways familiar to the intended audience, and have compelling reasons to be interested in learning about evolution - even though they are squinches from the planet Glargal.
If thousands of copies of the book were to make their way to the classrooms and libraries of public schools in the United States, it would be good news for teachers and students alike: knowledge of Darwin's importance and interest in learning about evolution would skyrocket.
Using evolutionary medicine as a tool for teaching basic evolutionary biology principles has the potential to address the recommendations of these reports and to engage pre-meds as well as many other students, both future life sciences majors and those who elect to pursue other career paths, in learning about evolution.
A: We're interested in learning about the evolution of bipedalism by actually looking at what real animals do.
Thus, we hypothesize that lower socioeconomic status (SES) citizens may not have the resources, opportunity, or motivation to engage in learning about biological evolution leading to low acceptance.
The findings, described in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B, contradict the idea that learning always requires neurons, and may shed light on the early evolution of learning in living things.
