Teach Evolution Early

Museums teach evolution.

Natural history museums play a significant role in educating the general public about evolution. This article describes Explore Evolution, one of the largest evolution education projects funded by the National Science Foundation. A group of regional museums from the Midwestern United States worked with leading evolutionary scientists to create multiple permanent exhibit galleries and a curricul...

What can selection experiments teach us about fisheries - induced evolution ?

An alife game to teach evolution of antibiotic resistance

The emergence of antibiotic resistant bacteria is a major threat to public health and there is a constant need for education to limit dangerous practices. Here, we propose to use alife software to develop training media for the public and the physicians. On the basis of the Aevol model we have been developing for more than six years, we built a game in which players fight bacterial infections u...

Brazil’s early urban transition: what can it teach urbanizing countries?

Acknowledgements: The authors wish to thank Haroldo Torres, José Miguel Guzman and Daniel Schensul for their helpful comments.

Identifying strategies early intervention occupational therapists use to teach caregivers.

This study investigated early intervention occupational therapists' use of strategies to teach caregivers. A sample of 40 videotapes made by early intervention occupational therapists was randomly selected from an archival videotape data set of provider home visits. The sample included 20 videotapes illustrating traditional services and 20 videotapes illustrating therapists providing participat...