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    Concepções de progresso biológico em livros didáticos de biologia
    (2013) SANTOS, João Vicente Alfaya dos
    Researches already carried out on the teaching of biological evolution, whether with teachers or students, when they inquire about the evolutionary process, present similar results, such as that evolution would be a linear process, with a view to improving organisms or that it would have a purpose, that is, it would be progressive. In this article, we bring the formulations of Francisco Ayala and Stephen Jay Gould, with the aim of theoretically deepening the debate on the subject. We also seek to identify and characterize the possible understandings of biological progress in Biology textbooks selected by the National Textbook Program of 2012, using content analysis and starting from a priori categories, formulated by previous investigations on this issue. The analysis of the ten selected books evidenced the frequent presence of conceptions of progress, especially the categories of linearity and improvement. We discuss, at the end, possible implications of these results for the teaching of evolution.