{"id":4874,"date":"2017-06-05T17:08:09","date_gmt":"2017-06-05T21:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cdl\/?p=4874"},"modified":"2017-07-10T14:15:25","modified_gmt":"2017-07-10T18:15:25","slug":"can-young-children-understand-complex-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cdl\/2017\/06\/05\/can-young-children-understand-complex-science\/","title":{"rendered":"Can Young Children Understand Complex Science?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/cdl\/files\/2017\/06\/Screen-Shot-2017-06-05-at-5.06.46-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/cdl\/files\/2017\/06\/Screen-Shot-2017-06-05-at-5.06.46-PM.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2017-06-05 at 5.06.46 PM\" width=\"545\" height=\"363\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4875\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span>Deborah Kelemen and fellow researchers discovered that children are able to grasp complex scientific concepts like adaptation by natural selection at a younger age than previously thought.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Recent research indicates that children can understand complex scientific concepts\u2014like natural selection\u2014far beyond what anyone would have expected.<\/p>\n<p>To test this, cognitive developmental psychologist Deborah Kelemen and coresearchers created a 10-page picture storybook about pilosas, a group of fictional mammals with long trunks. Then they read it aloud to five- to eight-year-olds.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/today\/2014\/can-young-children-understand-complex-science\/\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deborah Kelemen and fellow researchers discovered that children are able to grasp complex scientific concepts like adaptation by natural selection at a younger age than previously thought. Recent research indicates that children can understand complex scientific concepts\u2014like natural selection\u2014far beyond what anyone would have expected. To test this, cognitive developmental psychologist Deborah Kelemen and coresearchers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[216,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cdl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4874"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cdl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cdl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cdl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cdl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4874"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cdl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4881,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cdl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4874\/revisions\/4881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cdl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cdl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cdl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}