The fight to keep evolution in the public school curriculum is well known, but a quieter fight is being waged on college campuses, where evolution is taught primarily as a biological topic and avoided by the social sciences and humanities. That is now changing, thanks to a course and multicourse curriculum developed at Binghamton University, State University of New York, and which is now spreading to other campuses in the form of a consortium funded by the National Science Foundation. The course, titled Evolution for Everyone, is described in the forthcoming issue of the journal Evolution, Education, and Outreach. Taught by Binghamton University evolutionary biologists Daniel O’Brien and David Sloan Wilson, Evolution for Everyone is the cornerstone of a multicourse curriculum - the Evolutionary Studies (EvoS) program. Evolution for Everyone is available to students from all majors and teaches evolution as something that applies to all human-related subjects in addition to the biological world. It begins with the basic principles of evolution, similar to a standard evolution course, but then branches out to consider unorthodox topics such as dating, personality, economics, politics and religion in addition to more standard biological topics. Experiments are conducted in class, with the students acting first as subjects and then analyzing the results, so that they learn about scientific inquiry in addition to evolution per se. Finally, the students get to show off their new …
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