Barriers to understanding evolution
Barriers to understanding evolution
Misunderstandings @ New Scientist
1- Limited (local) exposure to biology.
2- Limited knowledge of organismal diversity.
3- Tendency to draw firm conclusions from a limited sample.
4- Lack of appreciation of geological time and its implications.
5- Limited understanding of molecular biology and ecology.
6- Lack of familiarity with probablity and mutation
7- Little understanding of how biological diversity arises.
8- Tendency to rationalize rather than to create and test hypotheses.
9- Social network isolated from science.