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Walking with Darwin in Rio De Janeiro

Learning about Cultural and Historical Values

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Going on voyages into the unknown and visiting places which have never been visited before have fascinated many people throughout human history. In the last two or three centuries many Europeans have been challenged to leave their countries to explore other places in order to build up a body of knowledge of the world and to understand the place of humanity there.

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Selles, S.E. (2015). Walking with Darwin in Rio De Janeiro. In: Boulter, C.J., Reiss, M.J., Sanders, D.L. (eds) Darwin-Inspired Learning. New Directions in Mathematics and Science Education. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-833-6_7

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