The Core Concepts, Competencies, and Grand Challenges of Comparative Vertebrate Anatomy and Morphology.

ABSTRACT: Core concepts offer coherence to the discourse of a scientific discipline and facilitate teaching by identifying large unifying themes that can be tailored to the level of the class and expertise of the instructor. This approach to teaching has been shown to encourage deeper learning that can be integrated across subdisciplines of biology and has been adopted by several other biology subdisciplines. However, Comparative Vertebrate Anatomy, although one of the oldest biological areas of study, has not had its core concepts identified. Here, we present five core concepts and seven competencies (skills) for Comparative Vertebrate Anatomy that came out of an iterative process of engagement with the broader community of vertebrate morphologists over a 3-year period. The core concepts are (A) ev

SUBMITTER: Danos N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9338813 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature