Human Evolution Resources Throwing and body coordination Some features of our body indicate that they are adaptations for the ability to throw objects. Thus, anthropologists suspect that Homo erectus were also able to secure and improve their food intake and protect themselves by targeted throwing. https://youtu.be/kyy-ECRz5bMhttps://youtu.be/Jq6dCFCMGq4 Questions about the videos: What features of our body […]
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A reading text about the challenges of life in groups and how groups across biology have found ways to solve these challenges.
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From 2018-2022, EvoLeipzig was the first place-based initiative to use the Global ESD framework within a German language context.
Classroom resources for exploring (the evolution of) human needs, values, and well-being
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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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A lesson collection on evolution, cooperation, and sustainability
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Students often do not have access to interdisciplinary scientific perspectives on the origins, diversity, and flexibility of human moral reasoning
Develop a lower secondary school training program on deeper and more interdisciplinary perspectives in moral psychology
Develop a middle grades training program on foundations in moral psychology
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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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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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