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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.

As always, you're free to write about whatever you thought about this week. But if you need something to get you started, how are you currently thinking about Darwin as an empiricist?  as a story teller?  Was Darwin a foundationalist or a non-foundationalist?  Is Origin of Species fiction or non-fiction?  What new problems did it create (eg do people matter after they give birth?  can uniformitarianism account for all aspects of biological evolution)?