Hale Book Club
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Fall 2009
Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body
By Neil Shubin
Meeting Time:
Thursdays 6pm @ The Hale
Scheduled Readings:
| Date | Location | Readings | Pages |
| 12 September | The Hale | (Chp 9) The Primary Claims of Punctuated Equilibrium: Data and Definitions; The Scientific Debate on Punctuated Equilibrium: Critiques and Responses | pp 765, 784–812 |
| 19 September | The Hale | (Chp 8) The Grand Analogy: A Speciational Basis for Macroevolution; Presentation of the Chart for Macroevolutionary Distinctiveness; The Particulars of Macroevolutionary Explanation | pp 714-724 |
| 26 September | The Hale | (Chp 8 continued...) Reproductive drive: directional speciation; Species selection, Wright's Rule and the power of interaction with directional speciation |
pp 724-735 |
| 03 October | The Hale | (Chp 8 continued...) Species-level drifts as more powerful than the analogous phenomena in microevolution; The scaling of external and internal environments; Summary Comments | pp 735-744 |
| 10 October | The Hale | Chp 10: Historical Constraints and the Evolution of Development; Constraints As a Positive Concept *We are waiting on an interlibrary loan of Dennett |
pp 1025-1037 |
| 17 October | The Hale | Dennett has arrived! Copy is in Roberta's mailbox for photocopying | 17 pgs |
| 24 October | The Hale | (Chp 10 continued...) Heterochrony and Allometry as the Locus Classicus of the first positive (empirical) meaning: channeled directionality by constraint | pp 1037-1051 |
| 31 October | TBA | Halloween Break! | |
| 07 November | CANCELLED | ||
| 14 November | The Hale | (Chapter 10 continued...) The aptive triangle and the second positive meaning: constraint as a theory-bound term for the patterns and directions not built exclusively (or sometimes even at all) by natural selection | pp 1051-1061 |
| 21 November | TBA | TBA | |
| 28 November | Thanksgiving Break | ||
| 5 December | TBA | TBA |
