For Overcoming Students' Intuitions of Design, The American Biology Teacher Suggests Employing Evo-Devo

I just finished reading an article by Kostas Kampourakis and Alessandro Minelli, "Evolution Makes More Sense in the Light of Development," in the journal American Biology Teacher. Here's an outline of the authors' argument:

Intuitions of design and of essentialism (the idea that entities have essences) arise during early childhood and persist into adulthood, making evolution seem counterintuitive and difficult to understand. Even though we know evolution is true, childish misconceptions get...