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Final Comments

I agree with Lavinia here.  I loved seeing all of my classmates' presentations, and each were interesting in their own ways and reflected on major themes and topic that we talked about this semester.  Everyone did such a great job!  And what was especially interesting was how each group/individual went about presenting what they learned and found interesting.  And I must say that during each class and through each week's forum discussion, I learned so much from every contributor's thoughts and opinions.  Each new concept, idea and thought made me re-think my own opinions and beliefs, and re-question many things I have previously believed.  I greatly enjoyed both the tuesday class meetings and the smaller groups on thursdays, which were nice because we had a more open and close discussion of topics.  The online forum is such an amazing asset to this class, for it allows us to reflect on the week's lectures, and to share our thoughts with the rest of the class.  The group dynamic was great, and the quality and opennes of the discussions was remarkable. I wanted to thank both professors for their wonderful guidance in the course, and to my classmates for sharing their thoughts and opinions with me this semester, challenging my own.  Now, I believe I have accepted the many implications that evolution can have, and have come to realize that biology itself is just a story that is getting things less wrong.  And I hope that over the years, I will continue to question and rethink different ideas, in pursuit of constantly getting things less wrong than before.

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