Description

Overview:

In this online activity, learners discover how random variation influences biological evolution. Biological evolution is often thought of as a process by which adaptation is generated through selection.Œć While it is recognized that random variation underlies the process, emphasis is usually placed on selection and resulting adaptation, leaving a sense that it is selection that drives evolution.Œć This simulation highlights the creative role of random variation, offering a somewhat different perspective: that of evolution as open-ended exploration driven by randomness and constrained by selection, with adaptation as a dynamic, transient consequence rather than an objective.

Subject:

History, Law, Politics, Life Science, Geoscience, Anthropology

Level:

High School

Material Type:

Activity/Lab, Simulation

Provider:

Serendip Studio

Provider Set:

Minds-On Activities for Teaching Biology

Date Added:

11/09/2012