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Dealing with Dogma

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Dogma and Evolutionary Biology

James ticko speaks with zoologist and tv presentor lucy cook about a dogma that's plagued the field of evolutionary biology, dating back to charles darwin himself. i wonder if it was all right if we started and this discussion about dogma with a bit of an activity. I've got some myths, some popular falsities, if you like, about animals i wonder if you might have a go at debunking for us. The first one is that you'll often hear people describe someone as being as blind as a bat. Now, are bats really blind? No, they're not blind. They r in fact, fruit bats can see better than we can.

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