From Darwin to Derrida: The Evolution of Meaning and Purpose
OEB 128
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Description
The seminar will read my recent book (of the same name as the course) intended for a general educated readership. The seminar would be suitable both for science students and for non-science students who wish to learn some evolutionary biology. Natural selection is a purposeless process that has evolved purposive creatures. The key innovation in the evolution of life was the origin of a textual record of past choices of natural selection contained within genetic sequences. The information in genes comes from the environment that selects. The textual record evolves as organisms are judged by the performance of the text in environmental context.
School
Faculty of Arts & Sciences
Credits
4
Cross Reg
Available for Harvard Cross Registration
Department
Organismic & Evolutionary Biol
Course Component
Seminar
Subject
Organismic & Evolutionary Biol
Grading Basis
FAS Letter Graded
Exam/Final Deadline
Dec. 15, 2026
General Education
N/A
Quantitative Reasoning with Data
N/A
Divisional Distribution
Science & Engineering & Applied Science
Course Level
For Undergraduate and Graduate Students
