Open AccessWhy Weightlifters Grunt: A Classroom Exercise That Introduces Students to Evolution
Author(s) -
H. Charles Romesburg
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
the american biology teacher
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.277
H-Index - 30
eISSN - 1938-4211
pISSN - 0002-7685
DOI - 10.1525/abt.2019.81.7.474
Subject(s) - curriculum , mathematics education , biological evolution , psychology , pedagogy , biology , genetics
A classroom exercise is described in which college students take part in creating and supporting an evolutionary hypothesis that explains effort grunting. The exercise holds their interest throughout and readies them to understand hypotheses of animal and plant evolution. It informs them about the dependence of cultural evolution upon biological evolution, and it connects widely to curricula.
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