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The biggest change in my understanding of evolution and literature has dealt with how each progresses toward new developments.  I had always considered evolution as a process that is moved forward by innumerable random factors, while literature was the result of individual creativity.  Now I understand literature to be the cumulative result of many factors outside of, and influencing, the author’s personal creativity, much like the story that I understand evolution to be.  Because of this new perspective, as I read literature I am much more aware of all of the influences and antecedents that made the final work what it is today.  Similarly, with evolution, I look at it more in the frame of a story of observations than I did before.  While I would not say that my entire view of literature and evolution have changed, this course has refined my perspective in some areas to see the similarities between them and interact with them in different ways.
Elise