Adaptation and the theory of evolution The writer offers us a critical analysis of the biology syllabus for senior forms, which demonstrates the absence of an evolutionist perspective. In other countries battles are fought over the teaching - or not teaching - of the theories of evolution. In France, the question does not arise : teaching in our lycées does not take evolution theory into account (and thus is creationist ?) and refers only to the notion of adaptation. The writer emphasizes that the way the notion of adaptation is introduced into school text-books implies a positivist point of view.L’auteur nous propose une analyse critique des programmes de biologie du second cycle, en faisant apparaître leur manque de perspective évolut...
The topic Evolution strongly differs among the school textbooks of biology in eight Mediterranean co...
ABSTRACT. According to reports from 1,441 undergraduate students at a large, public American univers...
International audienceEven in France, where creationist ideas are not widespread, more and more teac...
According to reports from 1,441 undergraduate students at a large, public American university, most ...
Teaching the evolution of the living species, a key concept in modern biology, is today at the heart...
The science of evolution englobes two complementary scientific fields. First, there is the historica...
Scientific revolutions may be characterized by the replacement of some fundamentaltheories by others...
Les sciences de l'évolution investissent deux champs scientifiques complémentaires : celui des scien...
Teaching the scientific theory of evolution can come up against religious convictions and c...
An adaptationist programme has dominated evolutionary thought in England and the United States durin...
Teaching evolution is a tricky business. Less teaching seems to give better understanding of the the...
Biological evolution is unlike other topics in science. For many students, it is emotionally-charged...
French school's scientific teaching is scarcely influenced by Intelligent Design or creationist inte...
It is the contention of this thesis that the field of adaptation studies is struggling to emerge fro...
The contemporary evolutionary theory (TE) was founded on the “population thinking, one of the most i...
The topic Evolution strongly differs among the school textbooks of biology in eight Mediterranean co...
ABSTRACT. According to reports from 1,441 undergraduate students at a large, public American univers...
International audienceEven in France, where creationist ideas are not widespread, more and more teac...
According to reports from 1,441 undergraduate students at a large, public American university, most ...
Teaching the evolution of the living species, a key concept in modern biology, is today at the heart...
The science of evolution englobes two complementary scientific fields. First, there is the historica...
Scientific revolutions may be characterized by the replacement of some fundamentaltheories by others...
Les sciences de l'évolution investissent deux champs scientifiques complémentaires : celui des scien...
Teaching the scientific theory of evolution can come up against religious convictions and c...
An adaptationist programme has dominated evolutionary thought in England and the United States durin...
Teaching evolution is a tricky business. Less teaching seems to give better understanding of the the...
Biological evolution is unlike other topics in science. For many students, it is emotionally-charged...
French school's scientific teaching is scarcely influenced by Intelligent Design or creationist inte...
It is the contention of this thesis that the field of adaptation studies is struggling to emerge fro...
The contemporary evolutionary theory (TE) was founded on the “population thinking, one of the most i...
The topic Evolution strongly differs among the school textbooks of biology in eight Mediterranean co...
ABSTRACT. According to reports from 1,441 undergraduate students at a large, public American univers...
International audienceEven in France, where creationist ideas are not widespread, more and more teac...