Essays about: "Darwin theory"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 8 essays containing the words Darwin theory.

  1. 1. Extinction, or the Extension of Life : Biology and History as Representation and Metaphor in Ted Chiang's "Seventy-Two Letters"

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för konst, kultur och kommunikation (K3)

    Author : Sofia Jonsson; [2022]
    Keywords : Ted Chiang; Speculative Fiction; History of Ideas; Michel Foucault; Gillian Beer; Biology; History; Evolutionary Theory; Preformation; Literature; Metaphor; Representation; Darwin; Nineteenth Century;

    Abstract : This paper explores Ted Chiang's novella "Seventy-Two Letters" and the way in which it combines genres, scientific and historical ideas in an effort to examine topics about life and creation. The combinations result in an intriguing representation of a history which is then made different and where Chiang can creatively challenge past ideas. READ MORE

  3. 2. The Galapagos Islands - a conflict of interests : a case study of how conservation, tourism and local interests meet, and howthat affect the islands and the residents

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Urban and Rural Development

    Author : Louise Arbin; [2019]
    Keywords : Conservation; tourism; governmentality; political ecology; Galapagos; Ecuador;

    Abstract : This thesis aims to examine how conservation, a growing tourism industry, and local interests meet at the Galapagos islands, Ecuador, and how that affects the islands and the people living or working there. This study is a result of a case study conducted at the Galapagos islands, mainly the island of Santa Cruz (which is the most populated island and the “economic capital”, as well as the island that has gone through the most rapid change in relation to growing tourism industry and development), done over the course of six weeks. READ MORE

  4. 3. Gestaltningsriktlinjer för musik i stadens offentliga rum : vetenskapsbaserade gestaltningsriktlinjer för musik tillägnad praktiserande landskapsarkitekter

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Urban and Rural Development

    Author : Max Ekholm; [2019]
    Keywords : musik; landskapsarkitektur; gestaltningsriktlinjer; torg; stadsliv; urban;

    Abstract : Musik har funnits bland oss människor sedan urminnes tider. Exakt när och hur musiken uppkom är inte känt men klarlagt är att den på ett eller annat sätt haft en evolutionär fördel för oss människor. READ MORE

  5. 4. Transgenerational phenotypic plasticity: can parental host plant experience affect the phenotype of the offspring? : a study in behavior and physiology in Spodoptera littoralis

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Biosystems and Technology (from 130101)

    Author : Axel Rösvik; [2015]
    Keywords : transgenerational phenotypic plasticity; Spodoptera littoralis; performance; migration; preference;

    Abstract : The Darwinian theory of natural selection first popularized by Charles Darwin in the mid-19th century has been widely accepted as one of the key mechanisms of evolution. However, before Darwin other scientists such as Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck had their theories about evolution. READ MORE

  6. 5. With or Without the "Divine Spark": Animalised Humans and the Human-Animal Divide in Charles Dickens's Novels

    University essay from Institutionen för språk (SPR)

    Author : Katarina Graah-Hagelbäck; [2014]
    Keywords : animalisation; continuum; Darwin; Dickens; ecocriticism; hierarchy; human-animal divide;

    Abstract : Animals appear in many guises in Charles Dickens’s novels, as wild animals, domestic animals, animals used in the service of humans, and, not least, as images and symbols. Based on a close reading of all of Dickens’s major novels, this thesis centres on the symbolic use of (both metaphorical and actual) animals in the depiction of human characters, the chief aim being to explore a phenomenon that Dickens frequently resorts to, namely, the animalisation of human characters. READ MORE