Tennessee was the center of the national debate when it prosecuted John Thomas Scopes for the crime of teaching evolution. Now, 87 years after the Scopes “monkey trial,” Tennessee is once again a ...

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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — One hundred years ago, a public high school teacher stood trial in Dayton, Tennessee, for teaching human evolution. His nation is still feeling the reverberations today. The ...

Educators involved in curriculum design know one hard truth: you can’t fit in everything. Whatever the finished product, there will always be someone who thinks something important has been missed or ...

Illustration of study design for exploring the impact of conflict reducing evolution education practices on student acceptance of evolution. Students in biology classes accepted the theory of ...

Evolution is a fundamental building block of biology that underpins our understanding of the diversity of life today and how we, as humans, came to be who we are. Despite these truisms, almost half of ...

Evolution is a fact of nature. Species change over time. The evidence is indisputable. Scientists have actually observed it as species evolved within our lifetimes. Bacteria, for example, have evolved ...