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European first-year university students accept evolution but lack substantial knowledge about it: a standardized European cross-country assessment

Investigations of evolution knowledge and acceptance and their relation are central to evolution education research. However, comprehensive and standardized comparisons across European countries, with their varying cultural backgrounds and education systems, were missing so far. Based on a standardized European survey with 9,200 first-year university students […]

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Web documentary series “Portraits of Euroscitizens”

EuroScitizen is an EU-funded COST Action. This research network aims to identify targeted strategies that will raise levels of scientific literacy in Europe using evolution as an example. In order to boost responsible citizenship, Euroscitizen is promoting scientific literacy, the ability to critically evaluate, apply and understand […]

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