It's a bit embarrassing to start an essay in the American Biology Teacher by saying that I didn't really like science in middle school or high school. Well, that's not entirely accurate; I got good grades and had great teachers, but I felt as if scientists had already discovered everything. They knew how liquids diffuse, how cell division worked, and about Newton's laws. I just didn't get any sense of mystery, wonder, or magic from science. As my friends took AP science classes, I was doing an independent study in modern women's writing. I wanted to major in English in college and be a writer or poet; or maybe major in comparative literature. As I was deciding on what class to take to round out my schedule during my first week at Bryn Mawr College, my academic advisor, a dean and former anthropology professor, suggested I take Introduction to Anthropology....

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