Has your own teaching of topics such as evolution or climate been challenged?
Many of the ideas that she embraced, such as evolution, were at odds with her father's beliefs, and they argued fiercely.
The movie is consistently thrilling and thought-provoking, dealing with issues such as evolution and humans' place in the universe.
And although she has not spoken out directly on issues such as evolution and the Big Bang, her husband advocated teaching intelligent design alongside evolution in science classes during his 2006 gubernatorial campaign.
Regulars such as evolution and the mind are there, as well as novelties such as brainwashing, how status affects your health, the prospects for marrying physics and social sciences as well as the secrets of autobiographical memory.
The high school curriculum already includes subjects such as evolution, which are much more controversial than the skills required for engaging difference and disagreement in a constructive way.
The 2012 Monkey Bill, tame by comparison, merely guarantees that teachers will not be disciplined for "critiquing" the "weaknesses" of scientific theories "such as evolution and global warming".
Artificial life, also called A-life or alife, computer simulation of life, often used to study essential properties of living systems (such as evolution and adaptive behaviour).
"Scientists have battled the political and ideological forces against concepts such as evolution and climate change for years,'' Elizabeth Hadly, a professor of biology, geological, and environmental sciences at Stanford University, told the Guardian this week.
His curiosity was largely influenced by his father, James Mello, a paleontologist who had served as the associate director of the National Museum of Natural History at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. Mello was intrigued by fundamental concepts such as evolution.
