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- Country:
- United States
- What do you do?
- Researcher, Other
- Organisation
- graduate student
- Fields of interest
- science, energy, climate change, biodiversity, policy
- Languages
- English, some Spanish, minimal French and German
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- I am a graduate student in ecology, studying the impact of urbanization on bird communities. I have recently become interested in the ways in which science is communicated to the public. This largely arose from observation of the lack of public understanding and accceptance of subjects such as climate change and evolution. Unless the public is properly educated about such topics, necessary advances in policy and conservation will be hindered.
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I guess one way to teach evolution is to bring it home with examples of plants and animals that even urban highrise dwellers must recognise - pigeons, rats, cockroaches, and the mold on apartment ceilings and concrete walls... Darwin spoke to a 19th century audience still relatively close to the land, compared with the majority urban society of today.
Cheers, Peter
Judging from your profile I thought this link might be of some interest to you :
http://www.eowilson.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=42&Itemid=68