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Are Organisms Living Records of Ancestral Environments?
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8:29Now PlayingIn this interview, Neil deGrasse Tyson and Richard Dawkins explore themes from Dawkins' upcoming book “The Genetic Book of the Dead”, where Dawkins explains how organisms are living archives of evolutionary history—each trait a reflection of ancestral environments. They also reflect on natural selection’s precision versus human judgment, and discuss the challenges of communicating science in religious or ideological contexts.
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