Teaching human evolution

From: The American Biology Teacher | Date: May 1, 2003| Author: Stevenson, Joan C; Alles, David L | Copyright information

As science educators, we have two goals in writing this paper. The first is to show the importance of teaching human evolution to all students. The second is to provide up-to-date resources for classroom teachers to use in teaching the subject. Secondary biology textbooks suffer from the inherent limitations of mass produced books making it difficult for them to stay current with rapidly changing scientific fields such as paleoanthropology. One of our motives for writing this paper is to comp...

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