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Summers, Gerald; Decker, Todd; Barrow, Lloyd – American Biology Teacher, 2007
In spite of the importance of geological time in evolutionary biology, misconceptions about historical events in the history of life on Earth are common. Glenn (1990) has documented a decline from 1960 to 1989 in the amount of space devoted to the history of life in high school earth science textbooks, but we are aware of no similar study in…
Descriptors: High Schools, Biology, Textbooks, Misconceptions

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