Undergraduate Biology Students' Teleological and Essentialist Misconceptions

• Prif Awduron: Florian Stern (Awdur), Kostas Kampourakis (Awdur), Catherine Huneault (Awdur), Patricia Silveira (Awdur), Andreas Müller (Awdur)
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Research in developmental psychology has shown that deeply-rooted, intuitive ways of thinking, such as design teleology and psychological essentialism, impact children’s scientific explanations about natural phenomena. Similarly, biology education researchers have found that students often hold inac...