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Genealogies and Critical Distance

• March 27, 2009 • Leave a Comment

Posted in Darwin, Genetic determinism, Genetic engineering, Medicine and literature, Science and humanities
Tags: Darwin, Genealogy, john dupre, Nietzsche, Regenia Gagnier

“Postgenomic Darwinism” and the Metaphors of Evolution

• March 27, 2009 • Leave a Comment

Posted in Darwin, Evolution, Gold Bug Variations, Science and humanities
Tags: Darwinism, john dupre, metaphors, postgenomic, tree of life

Is the Genetic Code Bourgeois?

• March 12, 2009 • Leave a Comment

Posted in Darwin, Double Helix, Evolution, Gender, Genetic determinism, Gold Bug Variations
Tags: bourgeois, heteronormativity, richard powers, The Gold Bug Variations

Ethical Systems, Religion, and (more) Genealogies

• February 5, 2009 • Leave a Comment

Posted in Darwin, Ethics of science, Evolution, Island of Dr. Moreau, Religion and genetics, Science and humanities
Tags: Buddhism, Christianity, Comparative Religion, Darwinism, Dr. Moreau, ethics, Evolution, Genealogies, Hinduism, Princes and Princesses, Religion, Spaceballs, Star Wars, Stoics, Thomas Huxley

Anthropomorphizing Darwin

• January 22, 2009 • 1 Comment

Posted in Darwin, Evolution
Tags: gender in Darwin, metaphor in science, personification in Darwin

Genealogies and Language

• January 22, 2009 • Leave a Comment

Posted in Darwin, Ethics of science, Evolution, Posthuman, Science and humanities
Tags: androgyny, apes, Darwin, epistemology, Evolution, Genealogy, geology, language, linguistics, metaphor, Origin of Species, Penis

Temporality and Eternity in Origin of Species

• January 21, 2009 • 2 Comments

Posted in Darwin, Science and humanities
Tags: Benjamin and time, darwin and geology, Darwin and time, Lyell, temporality, uniformitarianism

On Darwin and the Human/Animal

• January 21, 2009 • 1 Comment

Posted in Darwin, Evolution
Tags: anthropomorhism, Darwin and imperialist metaphors, ecology and ethics, invasive species