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"Postgenomic Darwinism" and the Metaphors of Evolution

carihova wrote 8 months ago: John Dupré began his lecture, “Postgenomic Darwinism,” by quipping that he had “come to bury Darwin. … more →

Tags: Darwin, Evolution, science and humanities, Darwinism, John Dupré, Metaphors, postgenomic, tree of life

Intertextuality and Ecology in The Gold Bug Variations

carihova wrote 9 months ago: The Gold Bug Variations makes reference to (at least) two works of the Western canon in its very tit … more →

Tags: science and humanities, Evolution, richard powers, Intertextuality, Allusion, Ecology

Is the Genetic Code Bourgeois?

matteatough wrote 9 months ago: Richard Powers’ novel The Gold Bug Variations seems to contain a moral for those aspiring scientists … more →

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

Children: Experiment and Exploration in The Gold Bug Variations

heatherfreeman wrote 9 months ago: While The Gold Bug Variations may be a supremely intricate novel primarily concerned with aesthetic … more →

Tags: Double Helix, science and humanities, Linguistics, Genetics, gold bug variations, richard powers, Childhood, Children, experimentation

Awareness and Endings

michaelalijewicz wrote 9 months ago: “I can name that song in three notes,” says Ressler in the last quarter of Power’s … more →

Tags: science and humanities, Behavior, the human genome project, DNA, Bach, Mozart, interpretation, Patterns, richard powers


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