I tell you what impresses me about the body of almost any animal is how elegantly beautiful it is from the outside. If you look at a lion, a cheater, a gazelle, these are beautiful machines. They're high-speed, fast-running either predators or running away from predators. Because of... Yeah, they are very beautiful things and we all think they are beautiful. If you cut them open, it's a mess. The same is true of cars and rockets and airplanes. It's the skywalker who figured this out, you know, on the ice planet. There's another nice example. I thought it was Luke. Han Solo. Uh-oh
Our evolutionary journey concludes with Neil deGrasse Tyson, Richard Dawkins, Bill Nye, Eugene Mirman, Jim Gaffigan and Maeve Higgins, recorded live at the Beacon Theatre in NYC.
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