TY - JOUR
T1 - Helping students conceptualize species divergence events using the online tool "TimeTree
T2 - The timescale of life"
AU - Metzger, Kelsey J.
PY - 2011/2
Y1 - 2011/2
N2 - Misinformation, preconceptions, and the human perception of time (e.g., in seconds, minutes, days, and years) are factors that can contribute to difficulties experienced by students trying to understand evolutionary phenomena on the scale of geological or "deep" time. In addition to other approaches, the use of a simple online species-divergence estimate calculator, "TimeTree: The Timescale of Life," can add resolution and clarity to big ideas that sometimes stand in the way of students' understanding of the unifying theory in biology, evolution.
AB - Misinformation, preconceptions, and the human perception of time (e.g., in seconds, minutes, days, and years) are factors that can contribute to difficulties experienced by students trying to understand evolutionary phenomena on the scale of geological or "deep" time. In addition to other approaches, the use of a simple online species-divergence estimate calculator, "TimeTree: The Timescale of Life," can add resolution and clarity to big ideas that sometimes stand in the way of students' understanding of the unifying theory in biology, evolution.
KW - Estimating species divergence times
KW - Evolution
KW - Phylogenetics
KW - Software
KW - Ttree thinking
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U2 - 10.1525/abt.2011.73.2.9
DO - 10.1525/abt.2011.73.2.9
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:79551507654
SN - 0002-7685
VL - 73
SP - 106
EP - 108
JO - American Biology Teacher
JF - American Biology Teacher
IS - 2
ER -