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Remote Ready Biology Learning Activities

Remote Ready Biology Learning Activities has 50 remote-ready activities, which work for either your classroom or remote teaching.

Emergence and Contingency/Purpose/Agency:
An Exploration of an Intersection Between
History and Biology/Neurobiology

Book Lists

Grobstein for Burke

Buchanan, T., Nexus: Small Worlds and the Ground-Breaking Theory of Networks, 2002

Damasio, A., The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness, 2000

Dennett, D., Darwin's Dangerous Vision: Evolution and the Meanings of Life, 1995

Dennett, D, Freedom Evolves, 2003

Nisbett, R.  The Geography of Thought: How Asians and Westerners Think Differently and Why, 2003

Norretranders, The User Illusion: Cutting Consciousness Down to Size, 1999

Wolfram, S. A New Kind of Science, 2002

Burke for Grobstein

Barbasi,, A, Linked: How Everything Is Connected to Everything Else and What It Means, 2003

Epstein, J. and Axtell, R., Growing Artificial Societies: Social Science From the Bottom Up, 1996

Grand, S., Creation: Life and How to Make It, 2003

Jacobs, J.,  The Death and Life of Great American Cities, 1992

Taylor, A., William Cooper's Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic, 1996

Wolfram, S. A New Kind of Science, 2002

White, Richard,  The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650-1815, 1991

 


Submitted as a Mellon New Directions Fellowship Program Application, 9/2003

Tim Burke, Department of History, Swarthmore College,

and

Paul Grobstein, Department of Biology, Bryn Mawr College

 

Summary

Project and Significance

Outcomes and Timetable

Personal Statements

Materials Cited

Book List

Pilot Observational Projects




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