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The Genetic Book of the Dead A Darwinian Reverie

Richard Dawkins

From a renowned biologist and best-selling author, a whole new way of looking at living organisms: reading them as documents describing ancient worlds

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The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

It is a book he is currently working on based on the idea that the animal is a model not just of the present but also of its ancestral past, with the genome as a palimpsest of ancient environments.

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it's a book I'm now working on called the genetic book of the dead which is all about the idea that the animal is a model of not the present for the past but it's a whole of the ancestral yes

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It is a book he is currently working on based on the idea that the animal is a model not just of the present but also of its ancestral past, with the genome as a palimpsest of ancient environments.

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it's a book I'm now working on called the genetic book of the dead which is all about the idea that the animal is a model of not the present for the past but it's a whole of the ancestral yes

StarTalk Radio

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StarTalk Radio

The Genetic Book of the Dead explores the idea that every part of our bodies, even seemingly useless features, is a record of the past environments in which our ancestors survived. It highlights how natural selection is a powerful force that has shaped us over millions of years.

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So, if you look at a highly camouflaged animal, a desert lizard is one that I use. It's got pebbles and sand all over its back. It's just a dummy painting of a desert on its back. Okay?

— Episode: Darwin’s Daring Idea with Richard Dawkin...

Episode: Darwin’s Daring Idea with Richard Dawkins

The Genetic Book of the Dead explores the idea that every part of our bodies, even seemingly useless features, is a record of the past environments in which our ancestors survived. It highlights how natural selection is a powerful force that has shaped us over millions of years.

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So, if you look at a highly camouflaged animal, a desert lizard is one that I use. It's got pebbles and sand all over its back. It's just a dummy painting of a desert on its back. Okay?

So, that is a description of the world in which its ancestors lived.

But it must be true right the way through every bit of the, every cell of the animal, every molecule of the animal has got the same description written.

We are a description of the worlds in which our dead ancestors survived until they died.

Survived long enough to reproduce.

The Daily Stoic

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The Daily Stoic

This was described as absolutely fascinating by the host and explores how evolutionary history is written into the makeup of animals.

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Then I just read his new book, The Genetic Book of the Dead, which is absolutely fascinating.

— Episode: Richard Dawkins’ Perspective on Faith, P...

Episode: Richard Dawkins’ Perspective on Faith, Philosophy,...

This was described as absolutely fascinating by the host and explores how evolutionary history is written into the makeup of animals.

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Then I just read his new book, The Genetic Book of the Dead, which is absolutely fascinating.

It's basically how humans have progressed and evolved how we're all books of the dead which to me is actually a fascinating Stoic concept.

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