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Flashy Fish

Flashy Fish

Professor John Endler traveled to Trinidad in the 1970s to study wild guppies. In this activity, learners take part in an online simulation of Endler's work. Learners collect data, formulate a hypothesis, and run a series of experiments. Learners find out about the interplay between natural selection and sexual selection in this wild population of guppies....

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Keywords:
Social Sciences, Evidence for Evolution, NSDL, Guppies, Biological Science, Ecology, Animals, Conducting Investigations, General, Asking Questions, Variation, Forestry and Agriculture, Sexual Selection, About Inquiry, Populations, Life Science, Ecosystems, Endler, Geoscience, Anthropology, Gathering Data, General Science, Predators, Fish, Evolution, Natural Selection, Education, Mechanisms of Evolution, Formulating Explanations
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Material Type:
Simulation
Date Added to MERLOT:
July 27, 2016
Date Modified in MERLOT:
July 27, 2016
Authors:
Submitter:
Barbra Bied Sperling
Hispanic Serving Institution
Primary Audience:
Middle School, High School
Technical Format:
Website
Mobile Compatibility:
Not specified at this time
Language:
English
Cost Involved:
Unknown
Source Code Available:
No
Creative Commons:
Unknown

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