269. Richard Dawkins — Flights of Fancy: Defying Gravity by Design and Evolution
The Michael Shermer Show
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The Geneti Book of the Dead
You can look at an animal and reconstruct its ancestral history. You can reconstruct the environments where its ancestors lived. So i even go as far to say the animal is a coded description of ancestral environments, especially its genes. If you could only read the genome em and, well, we can read it now, but you can't interpret it having got your genetic sequence,. As that's not the same thing as interpreting it. And another description is a palymsest of descriptions overlying earlier descriptions and more recent ones of overlying that. Oh, my god, i love that analogy. A palemsist. That's perfect. But don't stop. We need, we need you
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