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Making Biology Learning Relevant to Students: Integrating People, History, and Context into College Biology Teaching

*Department of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, Interdisciplinary Science, Eugene Lang College, The New School for Liberal Arts, New York, NY 10011;

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Deborah Allen

Department of Biological Sciences, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716; and

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Kimberly Tanner

San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA 94132

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Published Online:13 Oct 2017https://doi.org/10.1187/cbe.08-06-0029

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