Corinne Fortin is an associate professor in Didactics of Life and Earth Sciences at the University of Paris-East Créteil (UPEC) and at the André Revuz Didactics Laboratory (LDAR) of the University of Paris-Cité in France.Julie Gobert is an associate professor in Didactics of Life and Earth Sciences at the Learning, Didactics, Evaluation, Training Laboratory (ADEF) at Aix-Marseille University, France.

• Introduction xiiiCorinne FORTIN and Julie GOBERTPart 1 Teaching of Evolution and Beliefs 1Chapter 1 Student Positions in Learning about Evolution in Relation to Religious Beliefs and Scientific Knowledge 3Hanaa CHALAK, Marco BARROCA-PACCARD and Francis ROUQUETChapter 2 Relationships between the Ideas of Randomness and Understanding of the Evolution of Life among French High School Students 23Magali COUPAUD, Julie GOBERT, Jérémy CASTÉRA and Alice DELSERIEYSChapter 3 The Theory of Evolution: Possible Tensions between Science and Religious Beliefs 45José Luis WOLFSPart 2 Teaching Evolution: Educational and Training Issues 71Chapter 4 If Nothing Makes Sense without Evolution, What Sense Can Be Made of the Biology Content of the Official French School Curriculum? 73Marco BARROCA-PACCARDChapter 5 What if the Chimpanzee Belonged to the Genus Homo? Circulation of Knowledge and Curricular Re-Problematization 89Corinne FORTINChapter 6 The Current "Synthesis versus Extended Theory of Evolution" Controversy: A Training Opportunity about the Nature of Science 117Magali FUCHS-GALLEZOT and Corinne FORTINChapter 7 Historical Controversy over the Ages of the Earth and the Necessity for Deep Time for Darwinian Selection: Its Reception in Teacher Education 139Patricia CRÉPIN-OBERTChapter 8 The "Conceptual Landscape" of Evolution: A Possible Instrument for Training of Earth and Life Sciences Teachers 169Fabienne PAULINPart 3 Teaching Evolution: Conceptions and Obstacles 199Chapter 9 Building a Reasoned History of the Living World at School: Under What Conditions? 201Denise ORANGE RAVACHOLChapter 10 The Concept of Species in Thinking about Evolution and the Scientific Classification of Living Things: Comparative Approach at Different School Levels 221Yann LHOSTEChapter 11 Conditions for the Construction of the Darwinian Concept of Natural Selection by 6th-Grade Pupils in French-Speaking Belgium 243Jean-François PONCELET, Christian ORANGE and Jean-Christophe DE BISEAUChapter 12 Obstacles and Challenges in Teaching Probabilistic Population Thinking in Evolutionary Biology — A Case Study 273Julie GOBERT and Laurent THEISAcademic programs 299Conclusion 301Corinne FORTIN and Julie GOBERTList of Authors 303Index 305