We assessed student learning of tree-thinking concepts in an Introductory Organismal Biology course with labs that had been converted to inquiry-based instruction. Students made significant gains in their abilities to map characters onto cladograms and apply the principle of parsimony, but struggled with the concept of recency of common ancestry.
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