Assignments for Week Five - The Complexity of Life

Blog assignments for this week:

• Can diversification save species?
• Do you vote for the chicken or the egg?
• “I always eat my broccoli!”
• Respond to your classmate's blog entries

Check out the following links:

http://www.reed.edu/~mab/papers/4.puzzles.htm
Four Puzzles about Life

http://www.combusem.com/CAPRA2.HTM
The Web of Life
by Fritjof Capra

http://www.mooseworld.com/
Mooseworld

Assignments for Week Four - The Pattern of Life

Blog assignments for this week:

• Is there a drug around for just about everything?
• Can we raise our levels of dopamine ourselves?
• How do you think chimps and humans diverged as species?

Check out the following links:

http://www.combusem.com/CAPRA4.HTM
THE IMMUNE SYSTEM OUR SECOND BRAIN
FRITJOF CAPRA

http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/playground/life.html
The Game of Life

http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-36174
Philosophy of biology

Assignments for Week Three - Genetic Evolution

Blog assignments for this week:

• “99.4% of the most critical DNA sites are identical in human and chimp genes”
  What do you make of this?
• Check out the Prokaryotes, Eukaryotes, & Viruses Tutorial
  http://www.biology.arizona.edu/cell_bio/tutorials/pev/page2.html
  Post your results in your blog
• Post a response to a classmate's blog
  

Use your blog to record your impressions of Human Genetic Evolution
http://www.cartage.org.lb/en/themes/Sciences/LifeScience/PhysicalAnthropology/
HumanGeneticEvolution/mainpage.htm


*Reading Assignment - "Can you catch cancer?"*

Please read and prepare notes on the issues raised in the article in this week's class material entitled "Can you catch cancer?".


Check out the following links on Cybernetics:

http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/COMPNATS.HTML
Self-organization and complexity in the natural sciences

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autopoiesis
Autopoiesis

http://www.calresco.org/lucas/auto.htm
Autopoiesis and Coevolution

Assignments for Week Two - "Evo - Devo"

Blog assignments required for this week:

• Post your thoughts on Evo-Devo
• How does Darwinism matter to me?
• Respond to a classmate's blog

And check out the following links on Darwinism:

http://www.hhmi.org/biointeractive/evolution/howdidwegethere.html
How Did We Get Here?
From the inheritance of acquired traits to natural selection to evo devo, evolutionary theory has itself evolved
By Steve Mirsky

http://www.leaderu.com/orgs/arn/pearcey/np_dcpolicy0500.htm
Why Darwinism Matters
Washington DC Policy Briefing
May 10, 2000
By Nancy R. Pearcey

http://www.answersingenesis.org/home/area/faq/origin.asp
Origin of Life Questions and Answers
“Answers in Genesis”