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#87 – Richard Dawkins: Evolution, Intelligence, Simulation, and Memes
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#87 – Richard Dawkins: Evolution, Intelligence, Simulation, and Memes
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68 minutes
Released:
Apr 9, 2020
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Podcast episode
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Richard Dawkins is an evolutionary biologist, and author of The Selfish Gene, The Blind Watchmaker, The God Delusion, The Magic of Reality, The Greatest Show on Earth, and his latest Outgrowing God. He is the originator and popularizer of a lot of fascinating ideas in evolutionary biology and science in general, including funny enough the introduction of the word meme in his 1976 book The Selfish Gene, which in the context of a gene-centered view of evolution is an exceptionally powerful idea. He is outspoken, bold, and often fearless in his defense of science and reason, and in this way,
Released:
Apr 9, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode
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