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SGBN 202 - What is Life?

4.00 credit hours
Concentrating on the modern development of biology, this course begins with answers to the question of the course title in the 17th century and proceed thence to the recent neo-Darwinian synthesis. Through readings and laboratory exercises, students study the origins of evolutionary and genetic theory and the social and cultural milieux in which they developed. Epistemological questions raised earlier in the Natural Sciences sequence continue to guide inquiry, along with new ethical and even political considerations involving the question of the course title.

Cardinal Directions Designation(s): Sciences, Writing Intensive.
iCon(s): Being Human.


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