A Ruth

A Santana

AM Lucas

B Berlin

B Godwin-Jones

BJ Alters

C Fox

CL Geraedts

CW Fox

D Lack

D Palmer

DA Baum

DB Wake

DL Neumann

DS Wilson

E Danchin

E Engel Clough

E Meir

EL Charnov

EM Dijk van

J Perry

J Settlage Jr

JJ Smith

JL Rudolph

JM McNamara

K Kampourakis

KE Omland

KR Parker

L Prinou

L Schwartz

M Ferrari

ML Cody

MT Murphy

MU Smith

NMV Bizzo

P Konieczny

PM Bennett

R Guidetti

R Tidon

R Zuzovsky

RC Ydenberg

RDM Page

RE Moreau

RH Nehm

RJ O’Hara

S Carey

Sean A. Rands

SS Demastes

T Slagsvold

TD Williams

TR Gregory

W Jetz

Evolution : Education and Outreach

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Evolution Education and Outreach

The conceptual understanding of the process of adaptation (whereby a population becomes better suited to its environment over evolutionary time) is acknowledged to be a difficult one. Many studies have shown that there is an inherent misunderstanding of the term, which is often related to the learner adopting the common rather than biological usage of the term in the learner’s language. But understanding adaptation is essential to understanding evolution, and learners need to be encouraged to understand how to relate hypotheses of the “function” of a trait shown by an individual with the environment in which the individual lives. Here, I describe a practical which encourages a class of learners to create their own organisms, through a series of steps by which they create functional explanations of morphology and behavior. Using a branching process whereby groups of students are split into smaller and smaller subgroups, an artificial phylogeny is created. A wiki system is then used to emphasize how individual species and groups of species are related. The relationship of this practical to problems of tree-thinking is discussed.The conceptual understanding of the process of adaptation (whereby a population becomes better suited to its environment over evolutionary time) is acknowledged to be a difficult one. Many studies have shown that there is an inherent misunderstanding of the term, which is often related to the learner adopting the common rather than biological usage of the term in the learner’s language. However, understanding adaptation is essential to understanding evolution, and learners need to be encouraged to understand how to relate hypotheses of the ‘function’ of a trait shown by an individual with the environment in which the individual lives. Here, I describe a practical which encourages a class of learners to create their own organisms, through a series of steps by which they create functional explanations of morphology and behaviour. Using a branching process whereby groups of students are split into smaller and smaller subgroups, an artificial phylogeny is created. A wiki system is then used to emphasise how individual species and groups of species are related. The relationship of this practical to problems of tree-thinking is discussed

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