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