Chasing after Caminalcules

Classification, Evolution, and the Scientific Method

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Credits

This website and the didactic sequence have been built and designed by Jordi Domènech Casal, Science teacher at secondary school in Spain.

This activity is part of the ProyectandoBioGeo science learning activities itinerary.

The Caminalcules Story

The didactic sequence is inspired from an original idea of Joseph H. Camin, who invented these imaginary species as an experiment to test phylogenetic programs.

After this, Caminalcules have been widely used as a didactic tool to study how evolutionary relationships work, and mimic the work of evolutionary biologists (Gendron, 2000; Harris, 2010).

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Materials offered under Creative Commons (CC BY-NC 3.0):

  • The didactic sequence
  • The website and its images
  • Files from the Documents section created by me

You are free to remix and adapt the work, citing the original author. Use for commercial purposes is not allowed.

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Jordi Domènech Casal