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Title: Richard Dawkins: Who Was the First Human?
Added: Oct 14, 2011
Author: ForaTv
Duration: 4:29
Description:
Complete video at: http://fora.tv/conference/new_yorker_festival_2011Biologist and author Richard Dawkins presents a thought experiment to explain human origins. Following each generation backwards across millions of years of evolution, Dawkins shows why no species -- including homo sapiens -- can truly be said to have a "first" ancestor.-----What Is Reality? Richard Dawkins talks with Henry Finder. Presented in collaboration with the New Yorker Festival, on October 1, 2011.Richard Dawkins is an evolutionary biologist and the author of the Times best-selling books The Selfish Gene, The God Delusion, and The Greatest Show on Earth. His new book, The Magic of Reality, an illustrated science guide for adults and young people, comes out in October. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society and of the Royal Society of Literature.Henry Finder is the editorial director of The New Yorker.
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Youtube Comments: 440
SJGibbons1000 Says:
Mar 6, 2012 - your life is nonsense.
ProtectDavid Says:
Mar 8, 2012 - There was never a first human. hundreds of thousands of primates evolved into humans roughly at the same time, and just to be clear, humans are STILL evolving; humans 500 years ago were drastically shorter and smaller in size, the backs slowly but surely became straight instead of hunched. I guess the understanding of evolution requires education, which some religious nuts lack :)
ramzevans Says:
Mar 12, 2012 - as an atheist myself, I must say that if I actually believed that one must have faith in god in order to attain eternal paradise and conversely, if one doesn't they would spend an eternity in hell, where you burn in inexplicable pain, I would indeed see it as my life's mission to ensure that as few people as possible experience the latter.
100escapist Says:
Mar 18, 2012 - this is guy is so brilliant .... every day i watch this person speaking i become more and more artiest !!! well done retchard keep on !
mackan580 Says:
Mar 23, 2012 - asian people will never be better at sports than blacks or white for that matter your smallest weakest race
bruceliem Says:
Mar 24, 2012 - You must not have any confidence in yourself because you lack in skills lol. It does not matter. In each race you'd find an extraordinary person. Jeremy Lin represents asians for basketball. Manny Paquiao for boxing. I'm an all athletic person I can do anything. Probably the strongest and most powerful asian in fighting.
jmatthe29 Says:
Mar 25, 2012 - youtube.com/my_videos_upload
micastillo777 Says:
Mar 28, 2012 - Oh, what a fool person! Dawkins, open your eyes. From where did you get pictures of our one million year old ancestors? Your fairy takes are "science", and the truth of the Bible is a fairy tale for you. Did you know that our chin and the bone beneath our eyebrow keep growing and growing? The Bible says the people from oldest generations last almost 1 thousand years of life, that's why our "neanderthal" ancestor looks more similar to a chimp. Really your brain is more fishy than human, jaja.
micastillo777 Says:
Mar 28, 2012 - Oh, what a fool person! Dawkins, open your eyes. From where did you get pictures of our one million year old ancestors? Your fairy tales are "science", and the truth of the Bible is a fairy tale for you. Did you know that our chin and the bone beneath our eyebrow keep growing and growing? The Bible says the people from oldest generations last almost 1 thousand years of life, that's why our "neanderthal" ancestor looks more similar to a chimp. Really your brain is more fishy than human, jaja.
charlieking100 Says:
Apr 1, 2012 - He put if so beautifully and elegantly, the process of evolution. This video is treasure.
FarhanC99 Says:
Apr 3, 2012 - its funny how such a simple thing is so hard to explain
strangerlover11 Says:
Apr 19, 2012 - He is totally insane person of his own imaginations...hahahahahha
blri1932 Says:
Apr 20, 2012 - @strangerlover11 Actually Dr. Dawkins is a well respected evolutionary biologist. His theory is
blri1932 Says:
Apr 20, 2012 - @strangerlover11 sorry I accidentally hit submit... His theory that he expressed in this video is what 90% of all scientists believe in as well biblical scholars like the pope and higher level theologians in the catholic church. I wouldn't call him insane, I think he is brilliant!
truckcompany Says:
Apr 21, 2012 - I find is incredibly hard to understand how Christians can be confused about this video.. Richard was brilliant with his explanation.
truckcompany Says:
Apr 21, 2012 - Just 90%? Where did you get that figure from? I would assume it is over 99% and even greater when you ask biologists and even greater when you ask evolutionary biologists.
wilders636 Says:
Apr 24, 2012 - his imagination is no more insane than talking snakes and flooding the whole world and flying spaghetti monsters
AbdulShaafee Says:
Apr 29, 2012 - [ And say {to these polytheists and pagans etc.}: "All the praises and thanks be to Allaah. He will show you His aayaat {signs, in yourselves, and in the universe or punishments, etc.}, and you shall recognise them. And your Lord is not unaware of what you do."] Soorat An Naml {27:93}
faaz2013 Says:
May 9, 2012 - I think your man made God is insane who is busy giving aids to african children.
strangerlover11 Says:
May 10, 2012 - I think you are totally made man because God does not give you HIV but actually you are the one to do that happened.Allah says in the Quran do not use your hands against you,its means do not do any things like that which return bring big problems for you.So why you doing adulterations rather then to have a marry with the right womens.You stupid idiot use your brain...hahahahha
Shamhuzaini Says:
May 18, 2012 - @strangerlover11 Quran? What is that a book? If it is,I could write one too! :D
DrSheldonCooper100 Says:
May 24, 2012 - I read somewhere that homo sapiens started from 6 families. But i'm not sure
DrSheldonCooper100 Says:
May 24, 2012 - That's the difference between me and you.You BELIEVE that a human being lived for over a thousand years. I KNOW that this is ridiculous.
ibrahim4010 Says:
May 26, 2012 - God put part of his power in all creatures and let it run .If you hold a small seed between your fingers it has soul of life inside let it grow in the ground .This hidden power is only part of his power that is why we see different creatures












LessThanCertain Says:
Mar 4, 2012 - This is nonsense. You can't compare the passage of time in one individual's life with the gap between parents and children. If there are many humans today and there were 0 at one point, there had to be a first. Thats just how numbers work and has nothing to do with evolution,