Evolution and devolution of folkbiological knowledge

Cognition

Volumn 73, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 177-204

  Wolff, Phillip ^a   Medin, Douglas L ^b   Pankratz, Connie ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Conceptual change; Folkbiology

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOLOGY; EDUCATION; EVOLUTION; HYPOTHESIS; LEARNING; NOMENCLATURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCIENCE; TAXONOMY; TREE;

AWARENESS; CONCEPT FORMATION; EVOLUTION; FOLKLORE; HUMANS; NATURE; TREES; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 0032745021     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0010-0277(99)00051-7     Document Type: Article

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