Students’ intuitive explanations of the causes of homologies and adaptations

By Kostas Kampourakis, Vasso Zogza. 2008

136 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Education, History and Philosophy of Science, Social Psychology

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In Education

1. T. Gregory
2. Vasso Zogza
3. Kostas Kampourakis
4. Mike U. Smith

In History and Philosophy of Science

1. T. Gregory
2. Vasso Zogza
3. Kostas Kampourakis
4. Mike U. Smith

In Social Psychology

1. T. Gregory
2. Vasso Zogza
3. Kostas Kampourakis
4. Mike U. Smith

Citations in the corpus

• Understanding Natural Selection: Essential Concepts and Common Misconceptions (2009, background): “In this sense, anthropomorphic misconceptions can be characterized as either internal (attributing adaptive change to the intentional actions of organisms) or external (conceiving of natural selection or “Nature” as a conscious agent; e.g., Kampourakis and Zogza 2008; Sinatra et al. 2008).”
• Preliminary Evolutionary Explanations: A Basic Framework for Conceptual Change and Explanatory Coherence in Evolution (2009, background): “Students at the lower secondary school level (14–15 years old) have been found to provide predominantly teleological explanations for the origin of biological traits ( Kampourakis and Zogza 2008 ).”