Understanding and Teaching Evolution – Online Course
Find out the fundamentals of biological evolution and how to teach them in the classroom with this online course from the University of Bath.
Who is the course for?
The course is aimed at primary and secondary school teachers, students, parents, and anyone interested in understanding evolution.
What topics will you cover?
Inheritance and Variation
Natural Selection and Adaptation
Speciation
Macroevolution
Geological time
Human evolution
What will you achieve?
By the end of the course, you‘ll be able to…
Reflect that by biological evolution we mean that many of the organisms that inhabit the Earth today are different from those that inhabited it in the past.
Describe how species can change and adapt through naturally occurring genetic variations that are inherited.
Understand that natural selection is one of several processes that can bring about evolution, and that natural selection and adaptation can occur over large geological times.
Assess fossil evidence for human evolution in the context of the living great apes and modern humans.
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