Digging deep: Exploring college students' knowledge of macroevolutionary time

Journal of Research in Science Teaching

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 311-332

  Catley, Kefyn M ^a   Novick, Laura R ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cladistics; Cladograms; Deep time; Evolution education; Macroevolution; Tree thinking

Indexed keywords

CLADISTICS; CLADOGRAMS; DEEP TIME; EVOLUTION EDUCATION; MACROEVOLUTION; TREE THINKING;

BIOLOGY; STUDENTS;

TEACHING;

EID: 61849105911     PISSN: 00224308     EISSN: 10982736     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/tea.20273     Document Type: Article

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