Visualizing macroevolutionary timescales: students’ comprehension of different temporal representations in an animation
Abstract Background Macroevolutionary time is a difficult idea to grasp and is considered to be a threshold concept in teaching and learning evolution. One way of addressing this subject is to use animations that represent evolutionary time. The aim of this descriptive and exploratory study was to i...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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BMC
2019-02-01
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Series: | Evolution: Education and Outreach |
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Online Access: | http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12052-019-0099-9 |