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Life in groups and conflict resolution

With the help of reading texts and discussion questions, students explore the challenges inherent in group life and the kinds of traits that have evolved to prevent and solve these challenges across examples in biology and in human evolution.

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  • Teaching material type Full lesson plan, Reading text
  • Subject Areas Biology, Civics, History, Human Evolution, Social Studies
  • Learning Goals Cooperation Competency, Evolutionary Thinking, Interdisciplinary Thinking, Systems Thinking
  • Suitable Grade Levels 9-12
  • Concepts Adaptation, Biological evolution, Cooperation, Function of behavior, Group selection, Human evolution, Interdependence, Multilevel Selection
  • Content Anchors​ Ancient Ancestors, Cross-species

Author: Susan Hanisch

  • Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike [CC BY-NC-SA]

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