Scientific clarification

Laland, K. N., Uller, T., Feldman, M. W., Sterelny, K., Müller, G. B., Moczek, A. P., Jablonka, E., Odling-Smee, J., Wray, G. A., Hoekstra, H. E., Futuyma, D. J., Lenski, R. E., Mackay, T. F. C., Schluter, D., & Strassmann, J. E. (2014). Does Evolutionary Theory Need A Rethink. Nature, 514, 161–164. https://doi.org/10.1038/514161a

Laland, K. N., Uller, T., Feldman, M. W., Sterelny, K., Müller, G. B., Moczek, A. P., Jablonka, E., Odling-Smee, J., Wray, G. A., Hoekstra, H. E., Futuyma, D. J., Lenski, R. E., Mackay, T. F. C., Schluter, D., & Strassmann, J. E. (2014). Does Evolutionary Theory Need A Rethink. Nature, 514, 161–164. https://doi.org/10.1038/514161a Read More »

Eirdosh, Dustin (2022): Teaching evolution as an interdisciplinary science: concepts, theory, and network infrastructure for educational design research. Jena. Online unter: https://www.db-thueringen.de/receive/dbt_mods_00051708

Evolution is an interdisciplinary science. Evolutionary theory is routinely employed across the overlapping domains of the natural, social, and computational sciences, as a high level generalization of processes of change within complex adaptive systems. Despite this interdisciplinary character of evolutionary science, evolution education remains almost exclusively the purview of the biology classroom within general education curricula around the world. This thesis engages conceptual clarification and educational design research to map and explore the educational potential of teaching evolution as the interdisciplinary science that it is.

Eirdosh, Dustin (2022): Teaching evolution as an interdisciplinary science: concepts, theory, and network infrastructure for educational design research. Jena. Online unter: https://www.db-thueringen.de/receive/dbt_mods_00051708 Read More »

Wenseleers, T., Hart, A. G., & Ratnieks, F. L. W. (2004). When Resistance Is Useless: Policing and the Evolution of Reproductive Acquiescence in Insect Societies. The American Naturalist, 164(6), E154–E167. https://doi.org/10.1086/425223

Wenseleers, T., Hart, A. G., & Ratnieks, F. L. W. (2004). When Resistance Is Useless: Policing and the Evolution of Reproductive Acquiescence in Insect Societies. The American Naturalist, 164(6), E154–E167. https://doi.org/10.1086/425223 Read More »

Rehfeldt, R. A., Tyndall, I., & Belisle, J. (2021). Music as a Cultural Inheritance System: A Contextual-Behavioral Model of Symbolism, Meaning, and the Value of Music. Behavior and Social Issues, 1-25.

Music is a pervasive cultural practice that has been present in ancient civilizations through to the present, yet its evolutionary signifcance has not been unequivocally determined. One position suggests that evolution favored music-related behaviors because such behaviors were linked to sexual selection and reproduction. A more recent perspective that is consistent with today’s evolutionary science framework suggests that music is a cultural-level adaptation because of the survival advantages it afords members of a community. This article explores the selection mechanisms responsible for the retention and transmission of music-related behaviors.

Rehfeldt, R. A., Tyndall, I., & Belisle, J. (2021). Music as a Cultural Inheritance System: A Contextual-Behavioral Model of Symbolism, Meaning, and the Value of Music. Behavior and Social Issues, 1-25. Read More »

Scaffold and ensure adaptive understandings of moral psychology

Humans across cultures and from early in childhood display a diversity of often strong moral beleifs and related actions in the world. Understanding the diversity and commonalities in human moral reasoning can be seen as a prequisite for engaging in public discourse on highly contentious and complex social or ecological issues. Schools can work to ensure an iterative, scaffolded, interdisciplinary curriculum that support adaptive understandings of diverse perspectives in moral psychology.

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