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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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