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What Evolution Really Tells Us About Life | A Conversation with Steven Pinker

What Evolution Really Tells Us About Life | A Conversation with Steven Pinker

Update: 2025-02-27
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In this episode of The Poetry of Reality, Richard Dawkins engages in an insightful conversation with Steven Pinker about evolution, his motivation for writing The Blind Watchmaker, and a breakdown of his latest book, The Genetic Book of the Dead Steven Pinker is a Canadian-American cognitive psychologist, psycholinguist, popular science author, and public intellectual. He is an advocate of evolutionary psychology and the computational theory of mind. This was filmed in Boston, Massachusetts, as part of Richard Dawkins' tour.


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What Evolution Really Tells Us About Life | A Conversation with Steven Pinker

What Evolution Really Tells Us About Life | A Conversation with Steven Pinker

The Poetry of Reality with Richard Dawkins | Members Exclusive