堪萨斯州投票重新采用进化论

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1999年8月,堪萨斯州教育委员会做出了一项现在臭名昭著的决定。他们裁定,地方学区可以从课程中删除进化论。从那时起,该州的科学标准一直是激烈辩论和国际嘲笑的主题。然而,去年秋天,这场惨败出现了一个转折点,当时选民们罢免了两名反进化论的委员会成员。昨天委员会召开会议时,他们推翻了有争议的课程,在一次 7 比 3 的投票中恢复了进化论作为一项关键科学原则的地位。

随着新标准的实施,今年春天给学生的考试将包括关于进化论的问题。“教师和科学家们非常高兴堪萨斯州教育委员会做出了正确的决定,”国家科学教育中心尤金妮·斯科特告诉路透社。“这将向全国其他州和社区表明,支持良好的科学教育在政治上是明智之举,在教育上也是明智之举。”

Kate Wong is an award-winning science writer and senior editor at 大众科学 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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