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Idea Bank: Ring Species through Space and Time—A Class Demo

The Science Teacher—December 2007

Several educators feel that teaching evolution is critical to science education, yet the issue of human evolution is sometimes avoided due to cultural pressures. The class exercise described here was developed to help educators teach this controversial topic. The exercise is based on an idea presented in Richard Dawkin’s excellent book, A Devil’s Chaplain (2003), in which he looks at ring species through space and time.
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