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Sunday, June 16, 2013

ScienceDaily: Top Environment News

ScienceDaily: Top Environment News


Teaching complete evolutionary stories increases learning

Posted: 15 Jun 2013 12:24 PM PDT

Evolution is often thought to be a difficult subject to teach. A novel teaching approach in which undergraduates studied two integrative evolutionary scenarios all the way from the molecular level via the genetic and organismal levels to the population level improved the students' ability to explain and describe evolutionary principles. The results suggest that wider use of such integrated accounts in teaching could improve students' comprehension of evolution.

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