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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.

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 feeling about biological evolution as a narrative, non-foundational story? Does that make it more or less interesting to you? What issues does such a story raise for thinking in new ways about biology? about humans? Can you imagine ways such a story might be relevant for thinking about things in addition to biology?

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