NotesFAQContact Us
Collection
Advanced
Search Tips
Showing all 2 results Save | Export
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Scarfe, Adam C. – Interchange: A Quarterly Review of Education, 2021
This essay sheds light on the "father of epigenetics," Conrad Hal Waddington's (1905-1975) tacit critique of one of the most prominent biologists of the twentieth century, Julian Huxley's (1887-1975) theses concerning the evolutionary meaning and importance of learning and education for the human species. This topic has great…
Descriptors: Ethics, Evolution, Learning, Education
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Moore, Rob; Mitchell, Gill; Bally, Rod; Inglis, Margaret; Day, Jennifer; Jacobs, David – Journal of Biological Education, 2002
Explores the conceptions of evolutionary processes held by a group of university students (n=126) before receiving instruction on evolution. Focuses on students' linguistic usage in order to speculate about the source of some of the conceptual problems students encounter in this area. (Contains 19 references.) (Author/YDS)
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Evolution, Genetics, Higher Education