History 138:  Science in the U.S.

Class 12 (9/20)
Responses to Darwin
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Outline American responses:  a personal story
  Agassiz
  Gray

The course of the debate
  Commitments and casts of mind
  The argument between Agassiz and Gray
  Darwinian strengths, Darwinian weaknesses
Names and Terms
Primary Secondary
Louis Agassiz (1807-1873)
Lawrence Scientific School (Harvard)
Museum of Comparative Zoology
idealism
archetype
Asa Gray (1810-1888)
herbarium		 Georges Cuvier (1769-1832)
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
Transcendentalism (1830s-1860s)
biogeography
On the Origin of Species (1859)
Lazzaroni
polygenesis
Archaeopteryx
teleology
Assignment Work through the research paper website:
Research paper guidelines
Introduction to the research paper
Constructing a research paper
Finding a topic and sources
Moving towards the final paper (assignments)
And submit first paper thoughts by e-mail.
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