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The Poetry of Reality with Richard Dawkins

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Organisms as Living Books and Reverse Engineering

Dawkins explains how anatomy and DNA act as archives of ancestral environments, outlines interspecies GWAS (IGWAS) for reverse-engineering traits, and illustrates convergent evolution with examples like echolocation and whale ancestry.

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