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I have to apologize for getting nit-picky here, but we really need to avoid
using the term "survival of the fittest". It is a tautology (after all, the
way to determine "fitness" is based on who survives, so we have "survival
of the survivors). Numerous people hear this and say "of course -- that's
why evolution is bunk!". The correct term is "Natural Selection", and I
think it can be useful to let people know that WE know that. But if we can
get people to understand natural selection as a mechanism, I think we've
gone a long way toward evolution education.
Kodi R. Jeffery, Ph.D
Informal Science Educator
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I saw a bumper sticker yesterday that read, "Honk if you understand
punctuated equilibrium"! Which raises the question of what it means to say
that the public "understands" the mechanism of evolution. Understand at
what level? Does "survival of the fittest" qualify, or would that indicate
misunderstanding?
On Mar 4, 2011, at 5:10 AM, Martin Weiss wrote:
> In a study of museum visitors to an exhibition, Explore Evolution, Evans
shows
> that most museum visitors (to a natural history museum!) (72%) accept
> evolution -even for the human, but that the majority misunderstand the
> mechanisms. As for the general public, it is not clear that anyone has
> tested it in that way.
Chuck Howarth, Vice President
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