Abstract
Herein we present the recently founded Hellenic Evolutionary Society (HEVOS) that has been recently instituted to promote evolution and scientific thinking among the Greek-speaking public. HEVOS is a timely initiative, given the low levels of acceptance of evolution by Greek society and the almost complete lack of evolution teaching in primary and secondary education in Greece. Herein, the main aims of the Society are presented.
Highlights
We present the recently founded Hellenic Evolutionary Society (HEVOS) that has been recently instituted to promote evolution and scientific thinking among the Greek-speaking public
*Correspondence: sfendour@ucy.ac.cy 5 Department of Biological Sciences, University of Cyprus, Panepistimiou Ave. 1, Aglantzia, 2109 Nicosia, Cyprus Full list of author information is available at the end of the article people that evolution is not ‘just another theory’, but a robust scientific theory, what we might call a ‘fact’ in every-day speech
All biology courses have been significantly restricted in secondary education, so HEVOS has to join forces with all biologists to reestablish biology as a major field in high school curricula and, in doing so, bring in the frontline the light that gives meaning to all biology, which is evolution
Summary
We present the recently founded Hellenic Evolutionary Society (HEVOS) that has been recently instituted to promote evolution and scientific thinking among the Greek-speaking public. As of last January (2019), 160 years after the publication of the ‘On the Origin of Species’, Greece has its new Society aiming to promote evolutionary thinking, the Hellenic Evolutionary Society (HEVOS).
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