Teaching About Evolution And The Nature Of Science National Academy of Sciences pot

... Evolution and the Nature of Science was produced by the Working Group on Teaching Evolution under the Council of the National Academy of Sciences. The Working Group consists of 13 scientists and educators ... Chapter 2 returns to the basic themes that character- ize evolutionary theory, and Chapter 3 takes a closer look at the nature of science....

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... framework of species change and demon- strate the intimacy of nature and crop evolution. In the second half of the book, I focus on when and where crops were domesticated and the types of changes ... on the DNA (Fig. 1.14). The polymerase enzyme then synthesizes the DNA strand next to the primers. The solution is then heated and cooled in numerous cycle...

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... dangerous idea: the algorithmic level is the level that best accounts for the speed of the antelope, the wing of the eagle, the shape of the orchid, the diversity of species, and all the other occasions ... aspirations to understand these phenomena in the deep ways of theory. I spoke with Conway once about the creation of the Game of Life, and...