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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

We thank the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent), which funded the EvoCI Toolkit working group, making this work possible, and other members of the EvoCI Toolkit working group. We thank the following faculty who surveyed their biology courses to gather student-response data: Anita Baines, Tim Gerber, Rick Gillis, Gretchen Gerrish, Jennifer Miskowski, David Bos, David Eichinger, Michi Tobler, Jason Belden, Arpad Nyari, Andy Dzialowski, Stephen Gardiner, Joy Little, and Mary Towner. We thank the students who participated in this study. We also thank our panel of expert reviewers, which included, among others, Alexa Bely, W. Anthony Frankino, Brian Hall, Dayalan Srinivasan, David L. Stern, and Matt Wund. Their contribution should not be seen as an endorsement of either this article or the EvoDevoCI itself. The centipede image was used with permission from www.gutenberg.org; crayfish images were modified from an image in the Wisconsin Water Resources Clip Art Collection; other images were drawn by Caleb Trujillo. G.K.D. is supported by the Elizabeth B. Jackson Fund at Bryn Mawr College and award IOS-1051643 from the National Science Foundation (NSF). NESCent is supported by award EF-0905606, also from the NSF. Any opinions, findings, conclusions or recommendations expressed in this article are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the NSF.

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