The Good Show

Radiolab

WNYC Studios

Society & Culture, History, Documentary, Natural Sciences, Science

4.6 • 44.5K Ratings

🗓️ 14 December 2010

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, a question that haunted Charles Darwin: if natural selection boils down to survival of the fittest, how do you explain why one creature might stick its neck out for another?

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0:00.0	Wait, you're listening.
0:03.1	Okay.
0:04.4	All right.
0:05.6	Okay.
0:07.0	All right.
0:08.7	You're listening to Radio Lab.
0:11.4	Radio Lab.
0:11.9	From W. N. Y.
0:13.9	C.
0:14.8	See?
0:15.1	Yeah.
0:16.4	And NPR.
0:18.9	All right.
0:19.8	Okay, so let's just do the open. All right. Hey, I'm Chad Aboumrod. I'm Robert Krollowicz. This is Radio Lab. And today we're going to be talking, well, let's do it this way. Which way? I was at the 92nd Street Y in New York City, a big gathering spot for cool people with new books. And that particular is Richard Dawkins.
0:40.3	Richard Dawkins. They like him.
0:45.3	Don't make it so easy for him. I decided to begin. This is a real problem for a lot of people.
0:51.3	By quoting him to him.
0:55.0	You write, I don't know if it's in this book or some other, the total amount of suffering
0:59.0	per year in the natural world is beyond all decent contemplation.
1:03.0	During the minute it takes me to compose this sentence.
1:05.0	Thousands of animals are being eaten alive.
1:08.0	Others are running for their lives, whimpering with fear. Others are slowly being
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