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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Main Authors: Jörgen Ingemar Stenlund, Lena Anna Elisabet Tibell
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2019-02-01
Series:Evolution: Education and Outreach
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12052-019-0099-9