Teleological reasoning is viewed as a major hurdle to evolution education, and yet, eliciting, interpreting, and reflecting upon teleological language presents an arguably greater challenge to the evolution educator and researcher. This article argues that making explicit the role of behavior as a causal factor in the evolution of particular traits may prove productive in helping students to link their everyday experience of behavior to evolutionary changes in populations in ways congruent with scientific perspectives. We present a teaching tool, used widely in other parts of science and science education, yet perhaps underutilized in human evolution education—the causal map—as a novel direction for driving conceptual change in the classroom about the role of organism behavior and other factors in evolutionary change. We describe the scientific and conceptual basis for using such causal maps in human evolution education, as well as theoretical considerations for implementing the causal mapping tool in human evolution classrooms. Finally, we offer considerations for future research and educational design.

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因果图作为反思人类进化因果关系的教学工具

目的论推理被视为进化教育的主要障碍，然而，引出、解释和反思目的论语言对进化教育者和研究人员来说无疑是一个更大的挑战。本文认为，明确行为作为特定特征进化的因果因素的作用可能有助于学生以符合科学观点的方式将他们的日常行为经验与种群的进化变化联系起来。我们提出了一种教学工具，广泛用于科学和科学教育的其他部分，但在人类进化教育中可能未被充分利用——因果图——作为推动课堂中关于有机体行为和其他因素的作用的概念变化的新方向进化变化。我们描述了在人类进化教育中使用这种因果图的科学和概念基础，以及在人类进化课堂中实施因果图工具的理论考虑。最后，我们提供了对未来研究和教育设计的考虑。