Promoting evolution: the brand new Hellenic Evolutionary Society (HEVOS)

Herein we present the recently founded Hellenic Evolutionary Society (HEVOS) that has been recently instituted to promote evolution and scientific thinking among the Greek-speaking public. HEVOS is a timely initiative, given the low levels of acceptance of evolution by Greek society and the almost c...

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Autores principales: Abatzopoulos, Theodore J., Giokas, Sinos, Pafilis, Panayiotis, Poulakakis, Nikos, Sfenthourakis, Spyros, Zouros, Eleftherios
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6717379/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31489280
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40709-019-0098-6
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description Herein we present the recently founded Hellenic Evolutionary Society (HEVOS) that has been recently instituted to promote evolution and scientific thinking among the Greek-speaking public. HEVOS is a timely initiative, given the low levels of acceptance of evolution by Greek society and the almost complete lack of evolution teaching in primary and secondary education in Greece. Herein, the main aims of the Society are presented.
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spelling pubmed-67173792019-09-05 Promoting evolution: the brand new Hellenic Evolutionary Society (HEVOS) Abatzopoulos, Theodore J. Giokas, Sinos Pafilis, Panayiotis Poulakakis, Nikos Sfenthourakis, Spyros Zouros, Eleftherios J Biol Res (Thessalon) Commentary Herein we present the recently founded Hellenic Evolutionary Society (HEVOS) that has been recently instituted to promote evolution and scientific thinking among the Greek-speaking public. HEVOS is a timely initiative, given the low levels of acceptance of evolution by Greek society and the almost complete lack of evolution teaching in primary and secondary education in Greece. Herein, the main aims of the Society are presented. BioMed Central 2019-08-30 /pmc/articles/PMC6717379/ /pubmed/31489280 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40709-019-0098-6 Text en © The Author(s) 2019 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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