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Story of Evolution and Evolution of Stories course

Having Our Cake and Eating it Too?

Your webpapers: are you on this list????
(if you are not one of the 35 of 41,
go back and "tag" your paper
"Evolution and Literature Web Paper 1");
also review formatting, naming, etc.

Our on-line comments:
not what we think of your paper,
but what the papers make us think of
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Evolit: Week 4--Evolution as a non-foundational narrative story

Anne and I are glad you're here, to share thoughts about the story of evolution and the evolution of stories. This isn't a place for polished writing or final words. It's a place for thoughts in progress: questions, ideas you had before, in or after class, things you've heard or read or seen that you think others might find interesting. Think of it as a public conversation, a place to put things from your mind or brain that others might find useful and to find things from others (in our class and elsewhere) that you might find useful. And a place we can always go back to to see what we were thinking before and how our class conversations have affected that. We are looking forward to seeing where we go, and hoping you are too.

Evolution as Story III

Evolution as Story III
10 Feb 2009 (PG)


Switch in story telling style from non-narrative foundational to narrative foundational to emergence

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Evolit: Week 3--Darwin's story and story telling

Anne and I are glad you're here, to share thoughts about the story of evolution and the evolution of stories. This isn't a place for polished writing or final words. It's a place for thoughts in progress: questions, ideas you had before, in or after class, things you've heard or read or seen that you think others might find interesting. Think of it as a public conversation, a place to put things from your mind or brain that others might find useful and to find things from others (in our class and elsewhere) that you might find useful. And a place we can always go back to to see what we were thinking before and how our class conversations have affected that. We are looking forward to seeing where we go, and hoping you are too.

Evolution as Story II

Evolution as Story II
3 Feb 2009 (PG)



Adaptive diversity can result from undirected variation and "selection" (= differential persistance, regardless of intent)

Day 5--"Near-Sighted Visionaries": On Beyond Versus

I. on being lost?
finding the forum?
logging in before posting?
(read through Chapter 8 for Thursday's small group discussions....)



This course differs from Newsweek
in offering "and" rather than "or" relations

--on the question of Lincoln's and Darwin's relative greatness;
--on the question of the relative "worth" of
science and humanities, biology and literature
(applied in departmental mtg. last week!); and
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Evolit: Week 2--First Reactions?

Anne and I are glad you're here, to share thoughts about the story of evolution and the evolution of stories. This isn't a place for polished writing or final words. It's a place for thoughts in progress: questions, ideas you had before, in or after class, things you've heard or read or seen that you think others might find interesting. Think of it as a public conversation, a place to put things from your mind or brain that others might find useful and to find things from others (in our class and elsewhere) that you might find useful. And a place we can always go back to to see what we were thinking before and how our class conversations have affected that. We are looking forward to seeing where we go, and hoping you are too.

Classlist

Anne Dalke
(English House III)
Paul Grobstein

Day 3: On Reading Darwin as a Novelist

What It Means to Read Darwin;
What It Meant for Darwin to Read....


mfradera: What surprised me most about Darwin's work is how many other people he cites.

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