It would be interesting to preface discussions of evolution in
ecology courses with a few minutes about the cognitive differences
considered in the paper mentioned in this NPR story:
http://www.npr.org/sections/13.7/2015/06/29/418289762/don-t-believe-in-evolution-try-thinking-harder?utm_source=npr_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=20150705&utm_campaign=mostemailed&utm_term=nprnews
I wonder whether some of the students I taught in introductory
ecology/evolution who were resistant to the idea of evolution might
have been influenced by this.
David Inouye
Dr. David W. Inouye, Professor Emeritus
Department of Biology
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742-4415
2014-15: President, Ecological Society of America
Principal Investigator
Rocky Mtn. Biological Laboratory
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