Life, Darwin and... (2/5) - Richard Dawkins

[ToadsMGodes]

Id like to smoke a joint with Dawkins and see what he starts talking about lol

[cuevarap]

Dawkins is the reincarnation of Darwin..............wait, before you shoot me, I'm just kidding!

[C0dglitcher22]

@cuevarap Why would we shoot you? Its not like were religious.. n_n

[xxmdogxx1ify1]

evolution must be blank dawkins is a blank god must be blank anyone who doesn't think that must be blank and be a complete blank!!!! seriously

porno music at 3:50?

[bassetter1]

4 out of 10 ! in England ! you got to be kidding .

[Serpico261]

8:27 whats funny this sequence of pictures is now on almost all books about evolution.

[MSlabyrinthian]

every science teacher should strive to teach the way dawkins does.



[AgowTisro]

I wanna go fossil hunting with Mr. Dawkins.....

[oldSchooLson]

I wish Dawkins was my science teacher :(

[MrIndexT]

who can vote dislike ...

are you freaks or what?

[monster762]

@MrIndexT Monkeys, that's who. They don't want to accept the fact that they are cousins of humans.

[itsquazart]

Has anyone noticed the coincidence of Darwin and Dawkins :o Their names are so similar they must be the same person!

[ImAnotherZang]

Why the fuck aren't there a rich fossil deposit in Hong Kong?! Damn I wanna go on a fossil hunt for so long and watching things like these makes me feel so jealous...

[thissystemneeds]

Heh heh, sloAths.

[mastaODI56]

saying a divine being created everything is like saying a gun works cos there's are a small man in it that kicks the bullet 

[buckfushes]

I wish Dawkins was my Grandfather

[akosilawliet2]

@buckfushes same here.

[DPBlanche]

the video has one view for every year the earth has been around

[SPAS12beast]

@DPBlanche I would hope, everyone should see this 10,000 times. Unfortunately the current 8,000 views is not even close...

[HaligonianType1]

Let me do a test comment. I bet they need to be approved and anything against these videos doesn't get thru.

[DSD1v57BG32]

@HaligonianType1

I guess not.

[AtheistBrit]

@HaligonianType1 Nah that's only on creationist videos. They're scared of the truth and of free speech.

[atchisrj1]

Dawkins is the man!

[lahirera3]

Thank you very much. I'm a student from Spain, and I'm very interested in evolution and genetics. I like this videos because Dawkins speaks slowly and clearly ;)

[B4IRUTUARU16]

Dawkins if you can read this

you are my hero

[kraaberts]

I freakin love Dawkins.

[Alfleftwich]

Richard, you have opened alot of peoples eyes to the process of our evolution. Which I had thought most people have accepted by now. But it appears that there is still many people that cant accept it.

Great work and I commend you on all your work and study. You are truely a great man studing a great world.

Alf LW

[gerjaison]

OK, i don't like Richard Dawkins is because he never came to my science class!! (Surely this comment is out of jealousy)

[Massphyxiate]

Yes I know that, but we are a developed ape not a devolved human.

[sulthus]

I read a hypothesis that says lemars and apes have a not to distant cousin.

[gskowal]

can some explain to me how we became apes? meaning step by step evolution from bacteria into an ape? There seems to be no information on this area anywhere i look. All human evolution programs and articles talk about our evolution beginning at the stage where we were apes. But nothing on how we became apes. Anyone knows a good program or articles books about this area of subject ?

[justTinman87]

It's very a complex process. If you want a very good narative walkthrough you be want to look into Richard Dawkins the ancestor's tale. It has the whole process, but of course in no great detail since you really can't fit that into a single book. Rember that any single evolutionary biologist only focus on a tiny part. But once you know the whole picture you can zoom in on the transistions you find most interesting. Another book is Your inner Fish comparing modern man with our fish ancestors.

[annbretagne]

There's an accurate and entertaining overview in Bill Bryson's A Short History of Nearly Everything. The BBC are currently giving away a Tree of Life poster, which shows the points of divergence over the aeons, to UK residents only.

[thinghurlos]

The Ancestor's Tale by Dawkins explains the evolution of humans all the way from our common ancestor with bacteria, so I would recommend that one. It's a huge book and can be a bit heavy to read at times, but it's well worth it!

[VideoMacros]

Here's a good summary of the process:

/watch?v=-ONwp56pMBE

[Abaharaki]

Well of course they would talk about apes. It doesn't make a whole lot of sense talking about *human* evolution when humans or apes didn't exist. Human evolution or anthropogenesis deals with the emergence of homo sapiens as a distinct species. You can start your research by finding out where apes came from, and then go backwards step by step. If you want a rough idea then have look at phylogenetics and the tree of life.

[Massphyxiate]

I think you mean to ask "How did apes become humans?" Apes developed into humans, not the other way around.

[Screatus]

read it again...he said from bacteria to ape,,,he doesnt want to know from the branching to us

[hammyzone]

Humans evolved from an ancestral ape, but we are still apes ourselves, only our human arrogance and religious pettiness tries to make us seperate or distinct from the other apes.

I never understood why knowing you are an ape can be so offensive to so many people though, I think its beautiful. Evolution is remarkable beautiful.

[8DX]

No, that's not exactly acurate Massphyxiate. I mean some of our ancestors were apes of course - but the way you phrase it makes it sounds as if MODERN apes developed into humans - which is wrong. And of course: humans are apes, we are primates. We are a particular KIND of primate, sharing a common ancestor with chimps for instance and an even older common ancestor with gorillas. The thing about common ancestry is that it doesn't have to be an animal we would today call an ape.. more a proto-ape

[Massphyxiate]

8DX, I know modern apes don't evolve into humans. We share a common ancestor with them, I understand that.

Didn't mean to make is seem as though I thought modern apes evolve into humans. :)

[Gocavs1990]

you are actually not right. Apes didn't evolve into humans neither did humans evolve into apes. We share a common ancestor, so we're "family". There was no ape stage before the homo sapiens stage. Please study more before you comment on evolution, you make evolutionists seem stupid.

[Mattygvdb]

@Gocavs1990

We are apes you idiot. Th ancestor would have been labelled an ape.

[Mattygvdb]

@Gocavs1990

"the family Hominidae consisting of chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, humans and orangutans[1][2] collectively known as the great apes"

Do your research before you comment as well buddy.

[Gocavs1990]

@Mattygvdb Apes didn't evolve into humans cause humans are apes. Humans didn't evolve into apes cause humans are apes. We are family. There was no ape stage before the homo sapiens stage: we weren't apes until we evolved into apes. Can't find much in my 6 months old comment that contradicts the wikipedia knowledge that you just dropped on me.

[TheReasonParty]

@Gocavs1990 Yeah, he is right, we technically ARE apes. I believe you mean our ancestors were not modern apes, because we and they were definitely apes.

[flurble33]

It's over 9000(yrs old)!!!!!

[fjackson90]

the thing i like most about dawkins is the way he tries to teach kids about evolution. he isnt arrogant or rude. he comes up with very creative, interactive ways to get his point across to the kids.

[TheReasonParty]

@fjackson90 Cause lord knows that I would arrogantly belittle the teenagers as fools until they finally admit Darwin was right. lol

[happylinnetful]

@fjackson90 ha ..wrong one, i meant thumbs up >_>

[fjackson90]

good vid