AQA GCSE Biology Additions - Hodder & Stoughton
AQA GCSE Biology Additions. Vic Pruden. Hodder and Stoughton. 2002
This
textbook is a supplement to AQA GCSE Science, providing the additional
material needed for the separate science Biology GCSE. It contains only
one reference to evolution.
Evidence for evolution
In a chapter on Locomotion, it is claimed that wings are believed to have been adapted from the front legs of vertebrates that did not fly (p.16). Diagrams show the similarities between the pentadactyl limbs of humans, birds, bats, orang-utans, horses, whales and moles, and the text claims the fact that this general pattern exists in so many different vertebrates suggests that they have all evolved from a common ancestor. For a different suggestion see: Homology in Vertebrate Limbs.Quote
Speculations on the chemical origins of life are almost universally covered in school curricula under ‘Evolution’, despite the questionable relevance of the topic for evolution, and its rather uncertain scientific basis.
Moore, A. (2008) Nature 453:31-32
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