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Title: | Sexual Selection: A Short Review on Its Causes and Outcomes, and Activities to Teach Evolution and the Nature of Science | Authors: | Sá-Pinto, Xana Cardia, Pedro Campos, Rita |
Keywords: | Sexual selection; Sexual dimorphism; Mate choice; Mate competition; Scientific inquiry; Scientific models; Educational resources | Issue Date: | 2017 | Publisher: | University of California Press | Project: | PTDC/BIA-BEC/105221/2008 FCOMP-01-0124-FEDER-008967 SFRH/BPD/103613/2014 SFRH/BPD/64365/2009 SFRH/BPD/110348/2015 Ciência Viva |
Serial title, monograph or event: | The American Biology Teacher | Volume: | 79 | Issue: | 2 | Abstract: | Sexual selection plays an important role in species evolution and speciation, and is fundamental to understanding of biological evolution. In the last decades, research on sexual selection helped understand its causes and impacts in species evolution, sexual dimorphism, and speciation. It also provided interesting examples that can be used to engage students in learning about evolution. Here we review the latest sexual selection research and propose two activities that model evolution by sexual selection. The engaging nature of these activities makes them useful to promote active learning about evolution, the nature of science, and methods used to construct scientific knowledge. Importantly, we address several performance expectations suggested by the Next Generation Science Standards. | URI: | https://hdl.handle.net/10316/43707 | ISSN: | 0002-7685 1938-4211 |
DOI: | 10.1525/abt.2017.79.2.135 10.1525/abt.2017.79.2.135 |
Rights: | openAccess |
Appears in Collections: | I&D CES - Artigos em Revistas Internacionais |
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