Evolution and Literature Web Paper 1

The Story of Evolution and the Evolution of Stories

Professor Dalke

2/11/11

Webpaper #1

“How Should We Teach Evolution?”

Elly Leman

Evo-Lit, WebPaper #1

Due February 11th, 2011

Teaching Evolution: A brief look at how to teach the multiple stories of evolution

Mindy Huskins

2/11/11

BIO223

Dalke/Grobstein

Darwin's Big Problem

The Story of Evolution and the Evolution of Stories

2/10/11

Krishnan Raghavan

Reconciling Evolution with the Existence of Homosexuality

Ashley Navarro
Evolution, Stories, Diversity
Anne Dalke
February 11, 2011

                                                                          Juxtaposing Religion & Science

Jean Baptiste Lamarck was a war hero, a botanist, a pioneer in the field of invertebrates, a writer, and a scholar. He died blind and impoverished in 1829, never having gained respect or popularity from the scientific community, and today is remembered only for having wrongly conceived of evolution. He was buried in a rented grave and five years later his remains were removed and lost forever. But his ideas will perhaps soon be at the forefront of a new evolutionary debate.

 “In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.” –Darwin

On the Political Language of Charles Darwin

I am currently enrolled in an interdisciplinary biology and English course at Bryn Mawr College titled “The Story of Evolution and the Evolution of Stories” in which my classmates and I have begun to explore the process of evolutionary thought and applying this perspective to our own lives. Recently during a class discussion we were asked to define “evolutionary theory”. Though we all had a general notion of what evolutionary theory is, everyone in the course found it difficult to produce a dictionary definition that accurately could encompass the many aspects of evolution into a set of short and sweet sentences without steering into the taboo “survival of the fittest”.