Human Brain Shrinking
1)Each paper must be at least three full pages (double spaced, 12 pt font) and cannot exceed 4 pages. This does not include things like title pages, references, figures, graphs, etc. 2) Each paper must include at least 4 peer-reviewed sources (more on this in class)3) Each paper must also include a citation of at least 2 sources that are NOT peer-reviewed (this can be newspaper or magazine articles, blogs, films, TED talks, etc) Summary: Your ultimate goal is to use academic research to evaluate non-academic research in the form of a short paper. Here’s one example – gene editing technologies like CRISPR are radically changing science and bringing up questions of self-directed evolution. You could find some popular articles on CRISPR and then use academic sources to evaluate the claims and conclusions in those popular pieces. You might ask questions like: Are we still evolving? What role does technology have in that evolution? Is this something different, or just a continuation of niche construction that humans have been doing for centuries?[unique_solution]
Human Brain Shrinking
1)Each paper must be at least three full pages (double spaced, 12 pt font) and cannot exceed 4 pages. This does not include things like title pages, references, figures, graphs, etc. 2) Each paper must include at least 4 peer-reviewed sources (more on this in class)3) Each paper must also include a citation of at least 2 sources that are NOT peer-reviewed (this can be newspaper or magazine articles, blogs, films, TED talks, etc) Summary: Your ultimate goal is to use academic research to evaluate non-academic research in the form of a short paper. Here’s one example – gene editing technologies like CRISPR are radically changing science and bringing up questions of self-directed evolution. You could find some popular articles on CRISPR and then use academic sources to evaluate the claims and conclusions in those popular pieces. You might ask questions like: Are we still evolving? What role does technology have in that evolution? Is this something different, or just a continuation of niche construction that humans have been doing for centuries?