Teaching genetics prior to teaching evolution improves evolution understanding but not acceptance.

What is the best way to teach evolution? As microevolution may be configured as a branch of genetics, it being a short conceptual leap from understanding the concepts of mutation and alleles (i.e., genetics) to allele frequency change (i.e., evolution), we hypothesised that learning genetics prior t...

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Main Authors: Rebecca Mead, Momna Hejmadi, Laurence D Hurst
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-05-01
Series:PLoS Biology
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5441579?pdf=render