Evolutionary Thinking
Human Evolution Resources Cumulative Culture Physicist Isaac Newton once said of the importance of his scientific accomplishments: “I could only look so far because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.” By that he meant that he was relying strongly on the knowledge of his predecessors, and only by doing so could get to […]
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Evolutionary concepts are used, with varying and arguable degrees of scientific utility, across a wide range of disciplines. This contribution explores how understanding the structures of knowledge, or the organization of facts and generalizations in science, cognition, and education, may help illuminate the educational potential and evidence-informed pedagogical practices appropriate for teaching about the interdisciplinary application of evolutionary concepts.
Curriculum Overload is a complex phenomena in which schools face challenges in creating adaptive learning environments for students.
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In this lesson students explore the concept of (human) behavior, its causes, and its relation to well-being and sustainable development.
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This model simulates the evolution of populations in an environment that is spatially structured. In such a situation, several evolutionary mechanisms operate, including migration, founder effect, multilevel selection.
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This model adds cultural evolutionary dynamics through behavior imitation to the evolution of resource use behavior.
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OpenEvo is an educational innovation project from the Department of Comparative Cultural Psychology at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
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