Evolutionary Theories and Change - HPSC2720

   
   
   
 
Campus: Kensington Campus
 
 
Career: Undergraduate
 
 
Units of Credit: 6
 
 
EFTSL: 0.125 (more info)
 
 
Contact Hours per Week: 3
 
 
Enrolment Requirements:
 
 
Prerequisite: 36 units of credit
 
 
Excluded: SCTS2116
 
 
Fee Band: 1 (more info)
 
 
Further Information: See Class Timetable
 
 

Description


Diffusion of evolutionary theories of change from biology to many areas in the natural and social sciences. Topics: science as an evolutionary process; evolution of technology; extended phenotype; evolutionary economics; innovation systems; technological and institutional coevolution; evolutionary psychology; evolutionary concepts in cognitive science; memetics; sociobiology; cultural evolution; technology as forms of life; criticisms of eugenics, social Darwinism, ultra-Darwinism; religion, creationism, ethics, animal liberation; 'Evolution/Darwin Wars' and the 'Science Wars'; chance and design; complexity, game theory, and ideas about self-organization; information, knowledge, communications theories; exobiology and extraterrestrial life; evolutionary thinking and forecasting; genetic engineering; posthuman futures.