Evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins, author of best-selling books such as The Selfish Gene, The God Delusion and The Greatest Show on Earth, joined the stage at The New Yorker Festival this year to shed some light on “the missing link” in human evolution. Dawkins used a unique thought experiment to describe how a person could take “photographs” of each member of a family going back 185 million years. With the subtleties in changes from one generation to the next over the course of many generations, Dawkins asked, “can you really tell the exact moment when one species “evolves” into another?”
Richard Dawkins: There Never Was a First Homo Sapiens from The New Yorker on FORA.tv
Watch Richard Dawkins Talks with Henry Finder at the New Yorker Festival on demand at FORA.tv.
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