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Richard Dawkins sits down with Aubrey Manning to discuss Ethology, their time at Oxford, the state of life on Earth, and more. This video is brought to you free online by RichardDawkins.net and The Richard Dawkins Foundation. If you'd like to support our work creating videos like this, please buy it on DVD here:

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  • Cool rationale scientific thinking. I Love it!

  • 8:20 I have always said this. People often try and dismiss the notion we are just animals. Anything that reminds them of their animal origins they avoid. Anything that reminds people of the human condition they squirm under.

    Cosmology doesnt do this. Evolution does. This is why there is a bias against it. It shows people we are not SO special as we used to think we were.

    If we could remove disgust at the human condition from peoples make up the world would be a different place.

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  • when on tv only ofcourse or big speeches etc...

  • this is only a suggestion but maybe hiring a stylest might help with the communication situation

  • I actually quite like knowing my 'animal origins'. Evolution is a grand and majestic storey and there is still so much more exquisite detail left to learn. I'm proud to be part of such a great storey. The storey of life.

  • Worth pointing out that we're an intermediate species, not an end product of evolution. All living things are equally "evolved".

  • I wonder why Manning didn't mention that Smolin namedropped Dawkins in The Trouble of Physics.

  • I loved how they both denounced the ridiculous format of writing up experiments in University.

    However, there is nothing wrong with the introduction being presented first in a paper, because not only is it written last, but it presents to the reader your 'Line of Argument'. I can't think of any time in which I have written the introduction before doing the experiment apart from the one time in which I had to do some biological experiment on photosynthesis.

  • I'm learning APA style for Psychology right now... knowing Richard Dawkins hates that kind of style will make it harder for me to accept without complaints

  • @Eye2EyeIIIV So the problem is not the poor communicative skills of the Judeo-Christian god but Dawkins not meeting you, Yahweh's true prophet [...] LOL!

  • If those couches could talk...I dont know what that means either.

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