Helping Students Conceptualize Species Divergence Events Using the Online Tool “TimeTree: The Timescale of Life”
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- Kelsey J. Metzger
- KELSEY J. METZGER is Assistant Professor of Life Sciences at the University of Minnesota Rochester, 300 University Square, 111 South Broadway, Rochester, MN 55904; e-mail: kmetzger@umn.edu
説明
<jats:p>Misinformation, preconceptions, and the human perception of time (e.g., in seconds, minutes, days, and years) are factors that can contribute to difficulties experienced by students trying to understand evolutionary phenomena on the scale of geological or “deep” time. In addition to other approaches, the use of a simple online species-divergence estimate calculator, “TimeTree: The Timescale of Life,” can add resolution and clarity to big ideas that sometimes stand in the way of students' understanding of the unifying theory in biology, evolution.</jats:p>
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- The American Biology Teacher
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The American Biology Teacher 73 (2), 106-108, 2011-02-01
University of California Press
