Spore: Spawning Evolutionary Misconceptions?

Journal of Science Education and Technology

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 409-414

  Bean, Thomas E ^a   Sinatra, Gale M ^a   Schrader, P G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognitive biases; COTS; Evolution; Intentionality; Video games

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956690556     PISSN: 10590145     EISSN: 15731839     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10956-010-9211-1     Document Type: Review

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