Understanding evolution /
Current books on evolutionary theory all seem to take for granted the fact that students find evolution easy to understand when actually, from a psychological perspective, it is a rather counterintuitive idea. Evolutionary theory, like all scientific theories, is a means to understanding the natural...
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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2014.
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- 1. An evolving world
- 2. Religious resistance to accepting evolution
- 3. Conceptual obstacles to understanding evolution
- 4. Charles Darwin and the Origin of Species: a historical case study of conceptual change
- The development of Darwin's theory
- Darwin's conceptual change
- 5. , Common ancestry
- 6. Evolutionary change
- Concluding remarks.
