Do Students See the "selection" in Organic Evolution? A Critical Review of the Causal Structure of Student Explanations

Evolution: Education and Outreach

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 299-305

  Bardapurkar, Abhijeet ^a  

^a TATA INSTITUTE OF FUNDAMENTAL RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

Causality; Darwin; Evolution education; Explanation; Natural selection; Understanding

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954051710     PISSN: 19366426     EISSN: 19366434     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12052-008-0048-5     Document Type: Article

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