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One Story Behind the Story, by Anne Dalke | ||
In the Spring 2004 and 2005, Paul Grobstein and I offered a course at Bryn Mawr College called The Story of Evolution and the Evolution of Stories. Cross-listing the class in both Biology and English, we designed it as an interdisciplinary conversation intended to explore the usefulness of the literary conceit of "stories" in making sense of biology's account of evolution, and the usefulness of the particular scientific story of evolution in making sense of how literary stories evolve out of one another. A central text in the class was a 1995 book by
Daniel Dennett entitled Darwin's Dangerous Idea:
Evolution and the Meanings of Life. Dennett begins the volume by evoking his favorite childhood song:
Tell me why the stars do shine, |