BBC/OU Annual Lecture 2009: Dawkins on Darwin (Part 3 of 5)

Professor Richard Dawkins delivered this year's Open University lecture at the Natural History Museum on Tuesday 17th March 2009. Dawkins presented to an invited audience and investigated if Darwin was the most revolutionary scientist ever, and examined the evolutionary theories of his contemporaries.

Dawkins suggests that there are four "bridges to evolutionary understanding" and illustrates this with four claimants to the evolution of natural selection: Edward Blyth, Patrick Matthew, Alfred Wallace and Charles Darwin. The fifth bridge of evolutionary understanding is identified as modern genetics which he terms digital Darwinism.

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[yatter1]

@mapscannotcontainme couldn´t agree more with everything you say, they were both, a tribute to the scientific ideal

[mapscannotcontainme]

First of all, thanks for the upload.

Second of all, is anyone else as profoundly impressed by the apparently amicable way in which Darwin and Wallace agreed to recognize the independent conclusion the other made as I am? The maturity and integrity of that decision about such a monumental scientific claim is almost as impressive to me as the theory of evolution by natural itself. As if I needed another reason to admire Darwin and Wallace...I have it, regardless, though.

[naganokumas]

I want to know more about the 'steam governor', as mentioned at 3:30.

Can anyone suggest, via Youtube, a good explanation?

[Keeban3]

@Mr88playmaker

The Logos is a more complex idea than you make of it. I suppose that I have only read Heraclitus on the subject, so I may be wrong, but he seemed to have used the term to mean pattern or perhaps even Law of Nature. I know that "logos" literally means word, but its usage implies it had a different connotation.

[mystisme]

in that case nous ingreek is not not but nouse with a e and logos in greek don t know where or who told you what you say it is not true at all it mean science or knowleg i have been studying the rooth of language for many years donot dispute that i sure you do not know the rooth of demon,sin ,soual,sin. german, vilain ect... i can give you some lesson over it if you want me to some word as to be decompose like the word israel, leviathan, moses,genesis,ramses even the name jesus ect...

[Mr88playmaker]

I'm referring to "Nous" in GREEK (not French);

1. NOUS (Greek) = Mind or Intellect.

2. LOGOS (Greek) = The source and fundamental order of the cosmos, Communication or discourse, communication of thought by words; talk; conversation: earnest and intelligent discourse.

a formal discussion of a subject in speech or writing, ., any unit of connected speech or writing longer than a sentence.

DNA code arises out of Nous.

Information & language arise out of in a mind.

(see: nous / logos).

[mystisme]

nous/logos??? nous: sec personne du pluriel on french,logo means knowleg,science what are you talkinf about to tell you another things Einstein did not belive in real god even he say the mind of god he was using a metaphor

[walruspoker]

Thank you for the upload

[moe69girls]

thank u sir dawkins.