The Stagnancy of Family Studies in Modern Academia: Resistances Toward the Integration of Evolutionary Theory

Evolution: Education and Outreach

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 64-74

  King, Ashley C ^a   De Baca, Tomas Cabeza ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Human development and family studies; Resistances toward evolution; Teaching evolution

Indexed keywords

EID: 84863784967     PISSN: 19366426     EISSN: 19366434     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12052-010-0310-5     Document Type: Article

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