We describe an interdisciplinary course for senior students in the physical, biological, and social sciences. The unifying theme is evolution and evolutionary theories in physics and anthropology. Our experience from three years of teaching such a course is that this format is excellent for the purpose of introducing undergraduates to a more realistic view of scientific work than they would normally encounter and for exploring in an unusual way the scientific method and how it is expressed in our culture.

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