Art, Design, and Biology

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 25.01.10

  1. Unit Guide
  1. Introduction
  2. Overview
  3. Demographics
  4. Unit textbook
  5. Was Leonardo Da Vinci an artist or a scientist?
  6. What is scientific inquiry?
  7. Merge art and biology
  8. Teaching strategies
  9. Remember to:
  10. Projects
  11. Benefits of this Project:
  12. Students create art to portray a scientific discovery.
  13. Here's how students can use art to portray scientific discoveries:
  14. Other Examples of Art-Science Projects for Students:
  15. Conclusion: Benefits of integrating art and science:
  16. Reading list
  17. Oklahoma science standard
  18. Notes

Constructing by Deconstructing Anatomy

Donavan Spotz

Published September 2025

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Notes

1 Hall, Brian K. "Descent with modification: the unity underlying homology and homoplasy as seen through an analysis of development and evolution." Biological Reviews 78, no. 3 (2003): 409-433.

2 Barkow, Jerome H., Leda Cosmides, and John Tooby, eds. The adapted mind: Evolutionary psychology and the generation of culture. Oxford University Press, 1992.

3 Russell, E. S. 1916. Form and Function: A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology / by E. S. Russell. https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.3747.

5 Amundson, Ron. The changing role of the embryo in evolutionary thought: roots of evo-devo. Cambridge University Press, 2005.

6 Love, Alan C. "Evolutionary morphology, innovation, and the synthesis of evolutionary and developmental biology." Biology and Philosophy 18, no. 2 (2003): 309-345.

7 Novartis Foundation Symposium 222, pp. 65-79. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2007.

8 Brigandt, Ingo. "Homology and the origin of correspondence." Biology and Philosophy 17, no. 3 (2002): 389-407.

9 Müller, Gerd B., and Günter P. Wagner. "Homology, Hox genes, and developmental integration." American Zoologist 36, no. 1 (1996): 4-13.

10 Wagner, Günter P., ed. The character concept in evolutionary biology. Elsevier, 2000.

11 Sober, Elliott. Reconstructing the past: Parsimony, evolution, and inference. MIT press, 1991.

12 Bolker, Jessica A., and Rudolf A. Raff. "Developmental genetics and traditional homology." BioEssays 18, no. 6 (1996): 489-494.

13 Griffiths, Paul E. "Function, homology, and character individuation." Philosophy of science 73, no. 1 (2006): 1-25.

14 Matthen, Mohan. "What is a Hand? What is a Mind?." Revue Internationale de Philosophie (2000): 653-672.

15 Millikan, Ruth Garrett. Language, thought, and other biological categories: New foundations for realism. MIT press, 1987.

16 Newman, Stuart A., and Gerd B. Müller. "Epigenetic mechanisms of character origination." Journal of Experimental Zoology 288, no. 4 (2000): 304-317.

17 Ereshefsky, Marc. The poverty of the Linnaean hierarchy: A philosophical study of biological taxonomy. Cambridge University Press, 2000.

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