The author explores the evolution/creation conflict and suggests what educators might do to fulfill their responsibilities with the least offense to the religious beliefs of creationists and with respect for students' right to understand their Western scientific heritage. The paper begins with a history of the confict between creationists and…

This report is a synthesis of materials delivered at the seminar at St. Wolfgang organized by the Austrian Government in 1968 under the auspices of the Council of Europe on "The Value of Natural Sciences in Adult Education." It links the problems posed with those discussed at the Marly-le-Roi course (1967). The following aspects of adult education…

This publication consists of papers presented at an in-house symposium held at the Naval Undersea Research and Development (R and D) Center, San Diego, in May 1970. The topics discussed in these presentations are as follows: principles of evolution and the ecological crisis; alternatives to overpopulation; examples of San Diego noise climate;…

This biogeography module is designed for students wishing to study evolutionary interrelationships with the physical environment. Topics studied include various aspects of historical biogeography and evolution. Categories included are: (1) barriers to the dispersal or organisms, (2) the zoogeographic regions, (3) genetic change, (4) selection, and…

Compiled in this reference work are bibliographic citations for books, articles, films, and organizations dealing with the earth and environmental studies. In addition to the above topics of a general nature, specific categories include food, natural resources, origin of life, recycling, and wastes. Items are indexed only by title but information…

Investigated were the effects of two different methods of instruction on concept and principle learning related to organic evaluation. Also investigated was the relationship between achievement and science aptitude. The sample was selected from tenth grade students in a high school in Arizona. They were randomly assigned to a Biological Sciences…

Discusses various theories about life on Mars and biochemical experiments pertaining to the origin of life. (MLH)

This article discusses the origins and relative abundance of the elements, the factors that determined the chemical composition of the earth, and nucleosynthesis in the stars. (Author/BB)

Techniques in geochemistry continue to improve in sensitivity and scope. The exciting areas of geochemistry still include the classical fields of the origin of the elements and objects in space, but environmental crisis problems are important as well. (Author/BB)

Work reported on here includes such topics as: the origin of the solar system, a planet-crossing asteroid survey, and Mars and Venus probes. (BB)

Examines the role of sociobiology in explaining human behavior. Recommends that sociobiologists consider both biogenetics (DNA and information coded in the genes) and noogenetics (process by which learned structures are transmitted from one generation to the next). (Author/DB)

Sociobiology, although in its formative stage, is the most promising paradigm for bridging the gap between biology and the social sciences. (Author/AM)

Attempts "to look through the microscope" to try to understand how consciousness--or mind--comes into existence. And with mind, how language, the notion of truth, logic, mathematics and the sciences have come into the world. (Author/RK)

In the past year micropaleontology has added new understandings of early protistan history as well as contributed to the deciphering of the history of the world's oceans. Studies of formaminifer a have been especially important. (MA)

Reports the evolutionary history of the nautilus and related molluscs. (BB)