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Campus: Kensington Campus
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Career: Undergraduate
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Units of Credit: 6
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Contact Hours per Week: 3
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Enrolment Requirements:
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Prerequisite: 36 units of credit
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Excluded: SCTS2116
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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.
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