Reading and Discussion Schedule

tsuomela's picture

Welcome fellow inquirers.

We are about to start our study of Darwin's Origin of Species. We will be reading approximately two chapters per week over the course of this seven week class.

Here is a rough schedule of readings and topics for discussion.

- Week 1 - Darwin's biography and historical context
- reading - ch. 1 and 2 of OtOOS: Variation Under Domestication,
Variation Under Nature
- Week 2 - Darwin's theory
- reading - ch. 3 and 4 of OtOOS: Struggle for Existence, Natural
Selection
- Week 3 - Variation and theories of natural change
- reading - ch. 5 and 6 of OtOOS: Laws of Variation, Difficulties
on Theory
- Week 4 -
- reading - ch. 7 and 8 of OtOOS: Instinct, Hybridism
- Week 5 - Geology and the fossil record, the history of life
- reading - ch. 9 and 10 of OtOOS: On the Imperfection of the
Geological Record, On the Geological Succession of Organic Beings
- Week 6 -
- reading - ch. 11 and 12 of OtOOS: Geographical Distribution,
Geographical Distribution - Continued
- Week 7 - biology and genetics
- reading - ch. 13 and 14 of OtOOS: Mutual Affinities of Organic
Beings: Morphology: Embryology: Rudimentary Organs,
Recapitulation and Conclusion

Comments

ssehwag's picture

Earlier weeks stay open for

Earlier weeks stay open for posting throughout the discussion, so if you temporarily fall behind you can keep posting about the sections you’re on while you catch up. Postings can be cumulative – that is, in Week 4, for example, you can discuss not just the chapters for that week but anything up to the end of that section. Sometimes 642-446 exam you want to carry forward ideas from an earlier section into a later section, and that’s great. If you’re reading ahead of the schedule, please be careful not to post spoilers – that is, nothing relating to, or even hinting at, chapters ahead of the assigned section. But if you haven’t read ahead but have thoughts of what might happen or things that you think are 70-528 exam foreshadowing, it’s fine to post about them, since you’re not revealing anything that you read in future sections. Speculating about what direction a book might take is fun, as long as you are just guessing and don’t know from reading ahead. If you’re reading ahead and have thoughts on a chapter we haven’t gotten to yet, you can jot them into a Notepad of Word document 642-691 exam for cutting and pasting into the discussion when we get there. I find that’s a good way to avoid spoilers without losing track of interesting (I hope!) thoughts. Discussion of a section begins on the day it is posted, so if you want to be ready on day 1, have that section read before the opening date. But if you're reading more slowly, that's fine; just post whenever you're ready.

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