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“Clever Cockroaches”? I Don’t Think So!
One of my goals as an instructor and as a textbook author is to help students understand how natural selection works. It’s such an elegant concept that it should be simple to teach and apply. But students come in with … Continue reading
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Tagged biology textbooks, evolve to meet needs, misconceptions, natural selection, proper language
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