1. Conceptions of high school students on the theme Biological Classification
- Author
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Leandro de Oliveira Costa and Ricardo Francisco Waizbort
- Subjects
biological classification ,evolution ,homoplasy ,homology ,analogy ,Education (General) ,L7-991 ,Science (General) ,Q1-390 - Abstract
The diversity of forms and behaviors by the biodiversity is found fascinating for the human mind since immemorial times generating hypotheses about the relationship between living organisms and extinct. Today a part of biology works from the standpoint of constructing phylogenies, which is based on assumptions of evolutionary relatedness, knowledge that is very important with regard to the teaching of biology. We intend in this work to know the evolutionary conceptions which high school students use to explain the origin of diversity and its current classification. Typological explanations are the most frequent, but a phylogenetic speech seems to appear at certain times, which opens the possibility of exploring it’s pedagogical aspects by teachers.
- Published
- 2013