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Evolving Identities: A Focus on Immigrant Communities

Submitted by cwalker on Mon, 03/14/2011 - 8:56pm

Coral A. Walker

March 4, 2010

BIO/ENG 223

Dalke & Grobstein

Webpaper #2

 

Evolving Identities: A Focus on Immigrant Stories

 

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Evolution in Urban Development: Planning, Control Memes and Competition for Space

Submitted by elly on Sun, 03/13/2011 - 9:57pm

Elly Leman

EvoLit

WebPaper #2

Due March 14, 2011

 

Evolution in Urban Development

Planning, Control Memes and Competition for Space

 

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A Journey Through Cultures: Becoming Fit in American Society

Submitted by ashley on Fri, 02/25/2011 - 8:32am

A Journey Through Cultures: Becoming Fit in American Society

A certain type of evolution is notable through an immigrant’s arrival to the United States, in which there is an evident transition from their ethnic ties to that of American ways. This can be seen as a form of cultural evolution, whose permanent results can be seen over the spread of various generations. It is interesting to note the external factors that cause this change to occur; that which makes an individual believe they must detach from their old customs and take up new ones. This cultural evolution truly becomes a matter of survival of the fittest in American society today.
   

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Memes and sleep

Submitted by OrganizedKhaos on Thu, 02/24/2011 - 2:46pm

 Dennett caught my attention when he discussed what we as humans saw as the point of life. A life of exploring, learning new things is not exactly the way Mother Nature sees it. Instead he mentions that,  "a life of sleep is as good a life as any other and in many regards better --- certainly cheaper --- than most (p.340). Now that I believe is a great motto to live by considering the lack of attention many of my peers seem to pay to the subject of sleep. Wouldn't be interesting if our bodies worked similarly to bears and other mammals that hibernate all winter? Now that would be an interesting experiment, could we sleep through winter? what kinds of changes would our bodies go through?

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The Stagnation of Evolution through Standardization

Submitted by Sarah Schnellbacher on Fri, 02/11/2011 - 5:34pm

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”.

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The Quest for Truth: Science & Religion

Submitted by vlopez on Fri, 02/11/2011 - 10:48am

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Ignorance is Bliss?

Submitted by OrganizedKhaos on Tue, 02/08/2011 - 2:56am

Chance is defined as  the unknown and unpredictable element in happenings that seems to have no assignable cause. In the Origin of Species, Darwin's view on this topic is that those occurrences that we recognize as chance are in fact a pattern and our ignorance which makes it impossible for us to acknowledge its existence. To think that stories of evolution that exist today (in my years of education and schooling) incorporate the aspects of chance within them makes me think about the way in which science and literature are very much connected. 

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"Culture" and Civilization in Darwin's The Origin of Species

Submitted by cr88 on Tue, 01/25/2011 - 1:31pm

 One thing I found really interesting when reading Darwin's text was the incursion of ideas regarding the cultural superiority of Europe/the West into Darwin's discourse on the nature of evolution. "If it has taken centuries or thousands of years to improve or modify most of our plants up to their present standard of usefulness to man," writes Darwin, "we can understand how it is that neither Australia, the Cape of Good Hope, nor any other region inhabited by quite uncivilized man, has afforded us a single plant worth culture" (118). Darwin's use of the word "culture" is particularly interesting here.

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"The Commercialization of Clinical Trials: An Examination of Resulting Ethical Issues"

Submitted by lbonnell on Tue, 12/21/2010 - 1:39pm

The Commercialization of Clinical Trials:  An Examination of Resulting Ethical Issues

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