Although Campbell and Popper both pointed to the continuity between the evolution of human knowledge and the evolution of knowledge in non-human organisms, much of the early work in evolutionary epistemology focused on the human condition.
In PKMSs, the knowledge sharing and evolution processes are based on peer ontologies.
Cultural competence, as expressed by the National Center for Cultural Competence, includes the institutionalization of cultural knowledge and the evolution of competence over time.
The proposed framework was successful in improving student learning for both lower-order declarative knowledge questions and evolution-based questions involving higher-order integration of concepts.
The activities were designed to engage students, fostering their curiosity, interest, and knowledge on evolution and were developed as structured inquiry-based lessons (NSTA 2004 NRC 2007;Bandhi and Bell 2008).
This suggests that with effective instruction in the sciences (particularly biological evolution) knowledge and acceptance of biological evolution can be improved.
Variation in self-ratings of perceived applicability of evolutionary theory to extant lines of research was significantly impacted by participants' religious ideation, reported interest in and knowledge of evolution, and degree of meliorism, as measured by the MUSH scale.
Phylogenetic methods produce hierarchies of molecular species, inferring knowledge about taxonomy and evolution.
