Darwin « Genetics and Literature

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

Erewhonians, lilies of the valley, and people who really do know what they say they know…

• February 25, 2009 • Leave a Comment

Posted in Erewhon, Science and humanities
Tags: Darwin, Erewhon, Evolution, human embryo, patient rights, Samuel Butler, veganism, vegetarians

a bit of what our ancestor’s called ‘eternity’

• February 12, 2009 • 1 Comment

Posted in Brave New World, Science and humanities
Tags: B.F. Skinner, Bakunin, Brave New World, Darwin, Docile Bodies, Everything that rises must converge, Feelies, Huxley, Orgy-porgy, Pavlov, Truth & Beauty, Zeitgeist

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