Evolutionary thinking among biology students in a third world country

Abstract Background Evolutionary thinking is traditionally directly related to education and inversely to religiosity. Accordingly, biology students are naturally expected to be more prone to naturalist evolution due to their close contact with this theory and high scientific literacy. To test this,...

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Published in:	Evolution: Education and Outreach
Main Authors:	João C. F. Cardoso, Uiara C. Rezende
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	BMC 2017-10-01
Subjects:	Darwinism Evolution Creationism Science education
Online Access:	http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12052-017-0071-5

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