If the American public understood what is actually known about the major evolutionary transitions in the history of life and how we know about them, uncertainty about evolution would drop precipitously, creationist arguments would fall on deaf ears, and public education in biology would make much more sense than it now does. Macroevolution must take a much more prominent place in K-12 science teaching. To do so, a curriculum must be redeveloped at both K-12 and college levels, so that

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... n in macroevolution is a required part of K-12 biology preparation. 1 This language may seem overly pugnacious, but I'm deliberately borrowing it from the creationists, who have used the "battle" and "war" metaphors incessantly for over half a century (Numbers 2006) .