Darwin’s Daring Idea with Richard Dawkins

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🗓️ 11 June 2024

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Neil deGrasse Tyson sits down with evolutionary biologist and author of The Genetic Book of the Dead Richard Dawkins to talk about evolution, whether we were “designed,” how we are living reflections of our ancestors, and much much more.

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0:00.0	Coming up on Star Talk, a one-on-one conversation between me and Professor Richard Dawkins.
0:09.0	And we explore his life as not only a biologist, evolutionary biologist, but as an author.
0:16.2	And we pluck snippets from many of his books to find out what messages he wanted to lay down.
0:23.7	Join us.
0:24.7	Welcome to Star Talk.
0:28.7	Your place in the universe where science and pop culture collide.
0:34.0	Star Talk begins right now.
0:37.0	This is Star Talk.
0:41.0	Neil Degrass Tyson here, you're a personal astrophysist. And today, I'm in conversation with the one, the only. Richard Dawkins.
0:53.0	Richard, welcome back to my office.
0:55.0	Thank you very much.
0:56.0	This is like your fourth time here or something.
0:57.0	I think it is something like that.
0:58.0	Something like that.
0:59.0	Always a pleasure in you.
1:00.0	Welcome.
1:02.0	I mean, we have a lot of catching up to do, I think. So recently, or at least this year, we lost Daniel
1:10.4	Denet, philosopher Daniel Dennett.
1:12.6	And I recently learned, I didn't read all of his books, I read some of them.
1:18.2	He declared that Darwin's evolution by natural selection was the greatest idea anybody ever had.
1:28.6	And he's coming to it not as a biologist but as a philosopher.
1:32.0	So how do you reflect on that declaration?
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