Evolution and Literature Web Paper 1

 The Gay Gene

Words continually evolve, their connotations and definitions shift and are forgotten and replaced as the generations pass. The mutability of language causes people to connote certain words differently. This semester, I am taking an course cross-listed in both English and Biology called “The Story of Evolution and the Evolution of Stories”. This comment from one of my classmates prompted my essay:
 

Vivien Chen

Survival of the Selfless 

“A moral being is one who is capable of comparing his past actions and future actions and their motives – approving of some and disapproving of others; and the fact that man is the one being who with certainty can be thus designated makes the greatest of all distinctions between him and the lower animals” – Charles Darwin

 

Coral A. Walker

February 11, 2011

BIO/ENG 223

Dalke & Grobstein

Webpaper #1

 

Stories of Evolution in the Classroom

  The Story of Evolution and The Evolution of Stories:

 The Evolution of Education

 My paper is available here:

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Title: On the Argument of the Origin by Ewashburn and Ckosarek

 

Purpose: To evaluate the relative merits of two styles of argumentation in Darwin’s On the Origin of Species and discuss their relevance to a modern audience.

 

Materials: On the Origin of Species, Laptops, Brains

 

Educating Evolutionarily

The man who has everything figured out is probably a fool. College examinations notwithstanding, it takes a very smart fella to say “I don’t know the answer!”
                    —Attorney Drummond, Inherit the Wind (1955)

Michelle Han
Literary Kinds
Paper 1-Blogging

 

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bLogGerRiffic! personal blogs vs. political blogs are the different??

In reading Darwin's On the Origin of Species and discussing the book in class, I have found myself thinking a lot about the evolutionary significance of homosexuality.  I have been struggling not with the existence of homosexuality but instead with its' long history and continuation within our species, for if evolutionary theory is to be accepted, homosexuality, which is not a selective reproductive trait, should not continue to appear in the species.  According to Darwin's theory of evolution, the appearance of homosexuality is not surprising because the basic principle of the theory is based on the randomness of mutation within a species.  Given this, the existence of homosexuality is not surprising at all but, as mentioned before, the fact that it has continued within the population