Albatrossity2
Posts: 2780 Joined: Mar. 2007
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Quote (fnxtr @ Aug. 20 2010,10:44) | Okay, Joe has got be pretending to be that stupid. He's just yankin' yer chain. |
No, he is that stupid. Guaranteed. Anyone who argues that hail is not water is stupider than a box of rocks.
There is a marvelous paper in the online section of Evolution: Education & Outreach this summer, entitled "Teaching Tree-Thinking to Undergraduate Biology Students", by Richard Meisel. it covers a lot of the common misconceptions that students have about phylogenetic trees, and gives some pedagogical strategies for teaching past those misconceptions. I don't know about access to the paper (free or fee-based), but here's a link that you can try.
It won't help Joe, however.
-------------- Flesh of the sky, child of the sky, the mind Has been obligated from the beginning To create an ordered universe As the only possible proof of its own inheritance. - Pattiann Rogers
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