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Eugene Miya

BSCS -- Biological Sciences Curriculum Study (?), I think.

Perhaps inspired by their understanding of how biodiversity contributes to survivability, and aware of how the relatively monocultural "new math" had been faring, they came up with three different high-school bio curricula. These were yclept Blue Version, Yellow Version and Green Version, respectively emphasizing and unified by molecular biology, cellular biology, and ecology. Or something like that.

I got Green Version, which had come out a few years before "ecology" became a household world in the run-up to Earth Day (or in the aftermath of Earth Day? I forget). Our biology teacher had to start the first clbutt meeting by explaining what ecology was: "How animals relate to plants, plants relate to animals, and dirt relates to all of 'em" was his masterful paraphrase.

I never got that one. In the physical sciences I went straight from old-fashioned elementary school-jr high general science to advanced- placement chem and physics, which used college textbooks. Well, not exactly straight: following a year of BSCS Green bio and a year hiatus with no science subject.

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