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darwin,venter,dawkins,human genome,genes,evolution Uncut interview with Craig Venter, by Richard Dawkins

Uncut interview with Craig Venter, by Richard Dawkins

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Richard Dawkins interviews Craig Venter for "The Genius of Charles Darwin", the Channel 4 UK TV program which won British Broadcasting Awards' "Best Documentary Series" of 2008. Craig Venter founded The Institute for Genomic Research and has been credited with being instrumental in mapping the human genome. His team published the first complete genome of an individual human - Venter's own DNA sequence.

Buy the full 3-DVD set of uncut interviews, over 18 hours, in the RichardDawkins.net store: http://richarddawkins.net/store/index...

This footage was shot with the intention of editing for a television program. What you see here is the full extended interview, which includes a lot of rough camera transitions that were edited out of the final program (along with a lot of content).

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That's polite of Dawkins to say scientists follow the data, instead of letting ideology cloud their minds, but he knows firsthand from his participation in the sociobiology wars of the 80s that some scientists will go to great lengths to avoid inconvenient ideas, like that our evolutionary history influences the human mind.

Even today, those scientists are still fighting that war, accomplishing some positive corrections of course, but mostly just slaying straw-dragons.


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