Director of the darwin manuscript project at the American Museum of Natural History and he will be joining as soon. A special welcome to the other Staff Members and research from the American Museum of Natural History. We are very pleased you were here. Thank you, thank you. And also to the students and researchers from fordham university. Its a pleasure to have you here. This morning our focus of course is darwin. All of you have a special relationship with this man, and today will focus on his backyard experiments. And doctor james costa will guide us through the story. He is an aspiring scientist and esteemed author of the new book darwins backyard and youve already seen that youre actually able to purchase it here after the presentation and have doctor costa, or jim as we will call him, but a special personal message for you. While people are standing in line to buy that book, we have a first edition, a very rare sample of the darwin materials the library is so lucky to have. And f
She interviews Richard Dawkins about his later book the memoirs an appetite for wonder. This program is about an hour. Host richard i cant help but notice and admire your tie which has paid went on it. Is there a significance to that a biological significance . Guest its handpainted by my wife as all of my ties are. She paints ties and this is a oneoff tie. Theres nothing else like it in the world. We went to antarctica last christmas on a cruise and we spent christmas on a boat together so this was my christmas present. We were seeing millions of penguins and this was a wonderful present from her. Host do you have a particular interest in penguins . Guest i love penguins. They are astonishing animals the way they fly underwater. They are so clumsy on land and then they get underwater and they are phenomenally fast. You wouldnt believe how quickly they can swim through the water. Streamlining is beautiful and so like dolphins they are astonishingly fast in the do the dolphin thing. The
All my ties are. This is a one off time. Theres nothing else like it in the world. Host is fabulous. Guest we would to an article last christmas on a cruise. Coal we spent christmas on the boat in an article. This was my christmas present. Host do have a particular interest in penguins tragic i love penguins to they are astonishing animals way they fly underwater. They look so clumsy on land like clumsy little humans waddling along. Syndicate in the water and their phenomenally fast. You wouldnt believe how quickly they can swim through the water. The streamlining is beautiful. And select opens their astonishingly fast and they do that all living on the water. They jump out of the water and back in again. Host your first big success was the selfish gene, and then you wrote the god delusion, which may get a rather controversial figure. But also along with Christopher Hitchens and sam harris and daniel dennis, really made the word atheist acceptable. And i think for the people were asham
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