Genetics and Literature

Vanderbilt University – Spring, 2009
 
 

Power, Representation, and Imagination

• March 30, 2009 • Leave a Comment

Posted in Science and humanities
Tags: john dupre, Regenia Gagnier, Charles Dickens, Michel Foucault, David Hume, Anthony Trollope, power, dynamism


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


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