The Evolution of Human Purpose
Description
All other life forms except humans exist to propagate themselves and pass on their genes; humans alone work to other ends. In this lecture, Richard Dawkins distinguishes between the result of eons of natural selection which has resulted in, say, a bird's tail, whose purpose is to enable the bird to fly-purpose with a survival value-and deliberate design, like an airplane's tail. Dawkins shows the relationship between the two in explaining the evolution of human purpose.
Runtime
26 min
Series
Subjects
- Phylogeny (20)
- Physical anthropology (61)
- Human evolution (75)
- Biodiversity (348)
- Heredity, Human (127)
- Evolution (Biology) (216)
- Historical geology (101)
- Animal diversity (73)
- Genetics (271)
Genre
Date of Publication
[2010], c1992
Database
Films on Demand
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