堪薩斯州投票重新採用進化論

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1999年8月,堪薩斯州教育委員會做出了一項現在臭名昭著的決定。他們裁定,地方學區可以從課程中刪除進化論。從那時起,該州的科學標準一直是激烈辯論和國際嘲笑的主題。然而,去年秋天,這場慘敗出現了一個轉折點,當時選民們罷免了兩名反進化論的委員會成員。昨天委員會召開會議時,他們推翻了有爭議的課程,在一次 7 比 3 的投票中恢復了進化論作為一項關鍵科學原則的地位。

隨著新標準的實施,今年春天給學生的考試將包括關於進化論的問題。“教師和科學家們非常高興堪薩斯州教育委員會做出了正確的決定,”國家科學教育中心尤金妮·斯科特告訴路透社。“這將向全國其他州和社群表明,支援良好的科學教育在政治上是明智之舉,在教育上也是明智之舉。”

Kate Wong is an award-winning science writer and senior editor at 大眾科學 focused on evolution, ecology, anthropology, archaeology, paleontology and animal behavior. She is fascinated by human origins, which she has covered for more than 25 years. Recently she has become obsessed with birds. Her reporting has taken her to caves in France and Croatia that Neandertals once called home, to the shores of Kenya's Lake Turkana in search of the oldest stone tools in the world, to Madagascar on an expedition to unearth ancient mammals and dinosaurs, to the icy waters of Antarctica, where humpback whales feast on krill, and on a "Big Day" race around the state of Connecticut to find as many bird species as possible in 24 hours. Kate is co-author, with Donald Johanson, of Lucy's Legacy: The Quest for Human Origins. She holds a bachelor of science degree in biological anthropology and zoology from the University of Michigan. Follow Wong on X (formerly Twitter) @katewong

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