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  • Artist: Richard Dawkins Stephen Jay Gould
  • Title: Dawkins - If there is life
  • Album: Darwinian Dialogues
  • Year: 1988
  • Length: 0:33 minutes (767.51 KB)
  • Format: Stereo 44kHz 192Kbps (CBR)
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Richard Dawkins on adaptation, The Science Show

Audio: Richard Dawkins on adaptation, The Science Show

from ABC open archives, 12.06.09

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This is an excerpt of a debate between Richard Dawkins and Stephen Jay Gould recorded in Oxford in 1987. They discuss their differing interpretations of Darwin's theory of evolution. It was first broadcast on The Science Show on September 3rd 1988. You can read the full transcript here.

TRANSCRIPT:

If there is life elsewhere in the universe, we so far know nothing about the details. It may be based on silicon chemistry rather than carbon chemistry, it may flourish near the centre of hot stars, or it may flourish near the absolute zero temperature, it may be too small or too large for us to see or apprehend with our senses. But one thing I believe we can already be sure of, it will have evolved by a form of Darwinian selection, and this is why, for me, the most important thing Darwinism has to offer is its explanation of adaptation.

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