Creation and Evolution in Public Education

Creation And Evolution In Public Education

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Evolutionary biology
Key topics
  • Introduction to evolution
  • Common descent
  • Evidence of common descent
Processes and outcomes
  • Population genetics
  • Variation
  • Mutation
  • Natural selection
  • Adaptation
  • Polymorphism (biology)
  • Genetic drift
  • Gene flow
  • Speciation
  • Adaptive radiation
  • Co-operation
  • Coevolution
  • Divergent
  • Convergent
  • Parallel evolution
  • Extinction
Natural history
  • Origin of Life
  • History of life
  • Timeline of evolution
  • Human evolution
  • Phylogeny
  • Biodiversity
  • Biogeography
  • Classification
  • evolutionary taxonomy
  • Cladistics
  • Transitional fossil
  • Extinction event
History of evolutionary theory
  • Overview
  • Renaissance
  • Before Darwin
  • Darwin
  • Origin of Species
  • Before synthesis
  • Modern synthesis
  • Molecular evolution
  • Evo-devo
  • Current research
  • History of paleontology
  • Timeline
Fields and applications
  • Applications of evolution
  • Artificial selection
  • Biosocial criminology
  • Ecological genetics
  • Evolutionary aesthetics
  • Evolutionary anthropology
  • Evolutionary computation
  • Evolutionary economics
  • Evolutionary ethics
  • Evolutionary game theory
  • Evolutionary linguistics
  • Evolutionary medicine
  • Evolutionary neuroscience
  • Evolutionary physiology
  • Evolutionary psychology
  • Experimental evolution
  • Phylogenetics
  • Systematics
  • Universal Darwinism
Social implications
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The status of creation and evolution in public education has been the subject of substantial debate and conflict in legal, political, and religious circles. Globally there is a wide variety of views on the topic; in some countries legislation forbids teachers to discuss either the evidence for evolution or the modern evolutionary synthesis, the explanatory scientific theory of evolution. In other countries legislation mandates that only evolutionary biology is to be taught in the appropriate scientific syllabuses.

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