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In AP Biology, we spent only a month or so on evolution, the cornerstone of biology.
I hope that this is because you took AP biology about the same time I did -- several decades ago. The last time I read through a first year college biology text, it was dated early or mid 1990s. There, evolution was integrated throughout the entire course. A beginning section to outline the basic principles of evolution, and then throughout the rest of the course every aspect of biology was explained through evolution, and most biological phenomenon are therefore correctly seen as evidence for evolution.
This is the most sensible way to present evolution, in my opinion. Spend the initial month explaining and outlining evolutionary biology, go into the fossil record, maybe go over some of the more egregious examples of creation "science", and then present the rest of biology as a demonstration of the explanatory power of the theory of evolution.
I don't see why a high school curriculum should be any different.
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