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Direct linkParker, Joel D. – Journal of College Science Teaching, 2011
Most timeline analogies of geologic and evolutionary time are fundamentally flawed. They trade off the problem of grasping very long times for the problem of grasping very short distances. The result is an understanding of relative time with little comprehension of absolute time. Earlier work has shown that the distances most easily understood by…
Descriptors: Geology, Geographic Location, Computer Software, Universities
