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MIT OpenCourseWare
Evolution and Society
- Instructors
- Prof. John Durant, Jeanne Wildman, Michaela Thompson
- Term
- Spring 2012
- Level
- Undergraduate
- What's inside
- 1 lecture note · 1 reading · 15 other files · 2 web pages
- Materials open
- MIT OCW
About this course
Source: MIT OpenCourseWare STS.009 Evolution and Society, Spring 2012, Prof. John Durant, Jeanne Wildman, Michaela Thompson — original course page on ocw.mit.edu ↗. License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Study order: MIT's own listing order, section by section. Taken from MIT's published course files, downloaded from ocw.mit.edu on September 23, 2026. How RedLectern is built.
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Lecture Notes
14 files
- STS.009: Lecture 1 Download
- STS.009: Lecture 2 Download
- STS.009: Lecture 3 Download
- STS.009: Lecture 4 Download
- STS.009: Lecture 5 Download
- STS.009: Lecture 6 Download
- STS.009: Lecture 7 Download
- STS.009: Lecture 8 Download
- STS.009: Lecture 9 Download
- STS.009: Lecture 10 Download
- STS.009: Lecture 12 Download
- STS.009: Lecture 13 Download
- STS.009: Lecture 15 Download
- STS.009: Lecture 18 Download
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Course outline
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Lecture 2: The Nature and Scope of the Historical Sciences
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Lecture 3: Natural History and Natural Theology
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Lecture 4: The Birth of Historical Geology
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Lecture 5: Catastrophism and Uniformitarianism
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Lecture 6: “Victorian Sensation”—Chambers’ Vestiges
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Lecture 7: Voyages of Exploration, Part I: Darwin
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Lecture 8: Voyages of Exploration, Part II: Wallace and Bates
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Lecture 9: The Path to The Origin of Species
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Lecture 10: “Mr Darwin’s Hypotheses”
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Lecture 11: Guest Lecture: Andrew Berry
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Lecture 12: The Reception of Darwinism
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Lecture 13: The “Gospel of Evolution” in the Late–19th Century
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Lecture 14: Evolution and Eugenics
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Lecture 15: The “Eclipse of Darwinism” in Biology Around 1900
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Lecture 16: The “Eclipse of Darwinism” in the Social Sciences After 1900
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Lecture 17: Evolution and the Rise of Christian Fundamentalism
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Lecture 18: The Revival of Darwinism After 1900
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