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Direct linkNovick, Laura R.; Catley, Kefyn M. – American Educational Research Journal, 2013
Tree thinking involves using cladograms, hierarchical diagrams depicting the evolutionary history of a set of taxa, to reason about evolutionary relationships and support inferences. Tree thinking is indispensable in modern science. College students' tree-thinking skills were investigated using tree (much more common in professional biology) and…
Descriptors: College Students, Scientific Concepts, Visual Aids, Evolution
