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Understanding Evolution

One thing I've picked up from indexing education journals is that publications aimed at teachers often provide good backgrounders on complex topics. These backgrounders present complicated information in concise and understandable formats, without oversimplifying the topic. Understanding Evolution: An Evolution Website for Teachers is such a backgrounder. It provides guides for both learning and teaching evolution, including an explanation of scientific methods, the mechanisms of evolution, evidence to support evolutionary theories, and misconceptions about evolution. There's even a section that helps educators overcome roadblocks they face when teaching evolution. This section would also help lay readers understand and counter some of the objections that some have toward evolution. I hope to read this thoroughly when I have a chance.