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Evolution: A Course for Educators

184 calificaciones

American Museum of Natural History

Evolution: A Course for Educators

184 calificaciones

How are all of the species living on Earth today related? How does understanding evolutionary science contribute to our well-being? In this course, participants will learn about evolutionary relationships, population genetics, and natural and artificial selection. Participants will explore evolutionary science and learn how to integrate it into their classrooms.

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Course Introduction

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Conoce a los instructores

Joel Cracraft, Ph.D.
Chair and Lamont Curator
Division of Vertebrate Zoology
David Randle, Ph.D.
Senior Manager of Professional Development
Education Department

Welcome to the American Museum of Natural History's course on evolution.

I'm Joel Cracraft, I'm a curator of

ornithology here at the American Museum of Natural

History, and I'll be giving my lectures here in my office at the American Museum.

Now, the course is going to consist of four weeks.

And the first week we're going to learn about what is evolution.

We're going to learn about Darwin's two great

ideas the tree of life and adaptation with,

by natural selection.

We'll talk about species origins, how do new species arise.

And we'll give you some sense about the evolutionary

history of life and how to build these evolutionary trees.

And we too then will drill down on Darwin's

probably most famous idea, which is adaptation and natural selection.

And we'll also talk about other mechanisms that lead to adaptation,

such as sexual selection and, and then co-evolution.

And in the third week, we'll look at the grand scheme of life.

We'll, we'll start with the origin of life

and trace life's diversity up to the present.

And then we'll talk about extinction because

extinction is a major form of evolution.

It, it influences a lot of evolutionary patterns.

Finally, in the fourth

week, we'll talk about human evolution.

We'll start with how humans are related to the great apes.

we'll talk about all the fossil humans that are have been found.

And then in the second lecture we'll move to neanderthals and to homo

sapiens as we have moved out across the world over the last 60,000 years.

What were you going to take back

to the classroom?

Well we're going to give you a lot of material.

Dave Randall is co-teaching this course and will give you

a ton of information that follows up on the lectures.

We have a, a staff that's going to give you a lot of support in teaching.

Dave's going to talk about activities such as building trees

of life that you can do with your students.

We're going to be addressing student misconceptions about evolution and

how to deal with that.

And then we'll be talking about how we're, how, how one deals

with the topic of evolution and teaching evolution to socially diverse classes.

So, thank you very much for signing up for this course.

We're going to have a wonderful time teaching this course.

We're going to try to provide you with all

the information you need to really help teach

evolution in the classroom and give you a lot of support on how to teach that.

So thanks very much and enjoy the class.

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