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In 1996, the National Research Council put forth a set of guidelines for K-12 science education that state that students be introduced to the theory of evolution in primary and secondary schools. Tree thinking is an essential tool for understanding ...

Prior research has shown that reasoning with cladograms is a skill that must be taught. Novice students, who do not understand the peculiarities of the representational system, can rely only upon prior content knowledge and perceptual resources (e.g., ...

The research reported in other papers in this symposium reveal difficulties in adult and teenage interpretation of cladograms. This paper explores if children in middle childhood could interpret cladograms given minimal training and if so what factors ...

Evolutionary biologists see biology through the perspective of phylogeny, or evolutionary history. However, it is clear that most students do not interpret trees in the same manner as evolutionary biologists (Baum et al., 2005; Gregory, 2008; Halverson, ...