Does being wrong make Kettlewell wrong for science teaching?

Journal of Biological Education

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 5-11

  Rudge, David Wÿss ^a  

^a WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Depictions of science; Industrial melanism; Natural selection

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034368790     PISSN: 00219266     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00219266.2000.9655728     Document Type: Review

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