Evolution is already taught in secondary schools and many primary schools, but under the curriculum changes, it will become compulsory for primary pupils.
Professor Sir Martin Taylor, vice-president of the Royal Society, said: "We are delighted to see evolution explicitly included in the primary curriculum.
"One of the most remarkable achievements of science over the last two hundred years has been to show how humans and all other organisms on the earth arose through the process of evolution."
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