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https://www.transy.edu/academics/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2020/02/transylvania-university_professor-paul-duffin-portrait_crop-800-800x630.jpg800630“Simply transferring information from me to my students does injustice to the nature of scientific thinking.” In Paul Meyer Duffin’s eyes, the field of biology cannot be reduced to a simple list of facts to learn or processes to be memorized. Instead, he says, students must be able to think critically about the subject at hand, to evaluate the information and, ultimately, to take aContinue to “”