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Ginnobili, Santiago; González Galli, Leonardo; Ariza, Yefrin – Science & Education, 2022
We argue that teleological thinking plays a central role in biology and, more specifically, in theory of natural selection, and, therefore, the didactic goal cannot be its unnuanced elimination. In this sense, we will suggest that students' teleological views can be used as the starting point for the construction of knowledge in this area of…
Descriptors: Misconceptions, Scientific Concepts, Student Attitudes, Cognitive Processes