International journal of evolution
By Alters, Brian J & Nelson,Craig E.
“Perspective: Teaching evolution in higher education”
Publisher: Wiley online library
10/53
Pp. 1891-1901
2002
Perspective: Teaching evolution in higher education
Type: Empirical
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- Mutations are detrimental to fitness.
- Evolution is predictably progressive, with the end goal being humans, which will incorporate natural selection into that type of determinism.
- Evolution’s status of being ‘‘only’’ a theory.
- The environment itself (rather than genetic mutation, sexual recombination of genes, and natural selection) causes traits to change over time.