| DATE | TOPIC | READING |
| INTRODUCTION | ||
| 1/19 (Tues) | Course Overview & Episode of "The Day the Universe Changed" |
None |
| SITUATING EVOLUTION | ||
| 1/21 (Thurs) | Philosophy & Evolution | In NCE: pp. 511-517 (De Waal) pp. 517-524 (Ridley) |
| 1/26 (Tues) | Psychology & Evolution | In NCE: pp. 409-414 (Wilson) pp. 415-419 (Gould) pp. 465-477 (Pinker) pp. 477-480 (Jones) |
| DARWIN & DARWINISM | ||
| 1/28 (Thurs) | Evolution in Gestation: E. Darwin, Lamarck, Malthus, & Co. |
In NCE: pp. 33-39 (De Beer) pp. 39-40 (Malthus, 1798) pp. 44-49 (Lamarck, 1809) |
| 2/2 (Tues) | Introducing C. Darwin | In NCE: pp. 61-64 (Wallace, 1858) pp. 23-29 (Mayr) pp. 67-81 (Darwin) pp. 85-87 (Darwin) On Sakai: "Darwin's Delay" (Gould) (There's also an extra Gould piece in this PDF, which you're welcome to read) |
| 2/4 (Thurs) | Darwin Breaks Through | In NCE: pp. 95-115 (Darwin) |
| 2/9 (Tues) | The Origin of Species | In NCE: pp. 133-147 (Darwin) In BB: "The Panda's Thumb of Technology" "Glow, Big Glowworm" |
| FILM NIGHT: Tuesday, February 9 @ 7:30 p.m. “Darwin’s Darkest Hour” on Nova (location TBA) | ||
| 2/11 (Thurs) | The Descent of Man | In NCE: pp. 175 - 213 (Darwin) |
| 2/16 (Tues) | Descending Further... | In NCE: pp. 213 - 254 (Darwin) |
| 2/18 (Thurs) | In Darwin's Wake | In NCE: pp. 287-288 (Wallace) pp. 289-300 (N. Acad. Sci.) pp. 319-325 (Bowler) In BB: "Kropotkin Was No Crackpot" |
| APE LANGUAGE? | ||
| 2/23 (Tues) | “Apes have language!” | On Sakai: “Bringing up Kanzi” (Savage-Rumbaugh & Shanker) |
| 2/25 (Thurs) | Kanzi, the movie star | None |
| 3/2 (Tues) | “No, they don’t!” | On Sakai: “First Words” (Wade) “The Human Paradox” (Deacon) |
| ADAPTATIONISM & ANTHROPOMORPHISM | ||
| 3/4 (Thurs) | Adaptationism | On Sakai: “Introduction: Evolutionary Psychology and Conceptual Integration” (Cosmides, Tooby, & Barkow) “The Spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian Paradigm: A Critique of the Adaptationist Programme” (Gould & Lewontin) |
| 3/9 (Tues) | More on Adaptationism & Other Challenges | On Sakai: “Why Pigs Don’t Have Wings” (Fodor) “More Things in Heaven and Earth” (Gould) |
| 3/11 (Thurs) | Anthropomorphism | On Sakai: Excerpts from The New Anthropomorphism (Kennedy) "Anthropomorphism, Primatomorphism, & Mammalomorphism" (Keeley) |
| 3/16 (Tues) | SPRING BREAK | |
| 3/18 (Thurs) | SPRING BREAK | |
| THE MISSING LINK: DEVELOPMENT!! | ||
| 3/23 (Tues) | Evolution ←and→ Development: A bit of history | On Sakai: “Individual Development and Evolution” (Gottlieb) |
| 3/25 (Thurs) | Some Mechanics of Heredity | On Sakai: “Dependent Genes” (Moore) “Running Noses, Smelling Feet” (Moore) |
| FILM NIGHT: “What Darwin Never Knew” on Nova (Week of 3/29) | ||
| 3/30 (Tues) | The Importance of Development | On Sakai: “A Turtle in the Shade” (Moore) “The Dutch Hungerwinter and The Cat in the Hat” (Moore) “Chicken Shoes and Monkey Foods” (Moore) In BB: “Here Goes Nothing” |
| 4/1 (Thurs) | Developmental Systems Theory | On Sakai: “Developmental Systems and Evolutionary Explanation” (Griffiths & Gray) |
| THE SPECIES PROBLEM | ||
| 4/6 (Tues) | Problems with the Species Concept | On Sakai: “Species” (Sterelny & Griffiths) “On the Impossibility of a Monistic Account of Species” (Dupré) “On the Plurality of Species: Questioning the Party Line” (Hull) |
| 4/8 (Thurs) | Problems with the Species Concept, continued | None |
| CREATIONISM & INTELLIGENT DESIGN | ||
| FILM NIGHT: Inherit the Wind (Week of 4/12) | ||
| 4/13 (Tues) | Scopes Monkey Trial | In NCE: pp. 542-549 (Scopes transcript) In BB: "Genesis and Geology" "William Jennings Bryan's Last Campaign" |
| 4/15 (Thurs) | Creationism, Old School | In NCE: pp. 555-557 (I.C.R) pp. 557-564 (Morris) pp. 564-569 (Wheeler) pp. 534-541 (Scott) |
| FILM NIGHT: Flock of Dodos (Week of 4/19) | ||
| 4/20 (Tues) | Meet the New Boss (same as the old boss): Johnson, meet Paley |
In NCE: pp. 41-44 (Paley, 1802(!)) pp. 581-586 (Johnson) On Sakai: "Evolution as Dogma: The Establishment of Naturalism" (Johnson) “Naturalism, Evidence, and Creationism: The Case of Phillip Johnson” (Pennock) “Response to Pennock” (Johnson) Recommended – “Phillip Johnson’s Assault Upon Faith-based Darwinism” (Berton) |
| 4/22 (Thurs) | More Intelligent Design | In NCE: pp. 592-601 (Behe) On Sakai: “The Logical Underpinnings of Intelligent Design” (Dembski) Recommended – “The Flagellum Unspun: The Collapse of ‘Irreducible Complexity’” (Miller) |
| 4/27 (Tues) | One Philosopher’s Response | In LD: Chapters 1, 2, & 3 |
| 4/29 (Thurs) | Kitcher, continued | In LD: Chapters 4 & 5 |
| 5/4 (Tues) | The broad implications: Why this all matters to non-biologists | In BB: "Justice Scalia's Misunderstanding" On Sakai: "Why Creationism Should not be Taught in the Public Schools" (Pennock) "Creation and Evolution: A Modest Proposal" (Plantinga) |
| 5/6 (Thurs) | NO CLASS: READING DAY | |
| FINAL EXAM: WEDNESDAY, MAY 12, 2010 @ 2:00 PM | ||
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