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The Darwin Debate: Steven Pinker, Jonathan Miller, Steve Jones and Meredith Small – BBC
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Me thinks this curly cute thing is a zombie.
Does anyone adhere anymore to "the selfish gene" garbage?
Genes have no predication unless there is a consciousness.
Sheesh, a man cannot measure electrons without getting confused.
Steve Jones, what a waste of space.
The part about dyslexia and how human society today effect our brain, which evolve in a very different environment, is amazing. The condition human live today is vastly different than 200k years ago when we become anatomically modern humans so there bound to be a lot of mismatch in the way our brain ( and our body) work and the way human society work to day. This is one of many mind-blowing moment since I start to follow steven pinker work. He one of my favourite author in the morden era.
women like to have 3 boyfriends. boys like to have 30. what don't we understand???
Pinkers Jew Fro is epic
I find it a bit sad on such a great intellectual discussion. people on the comments are talking about their looks as if they weren't even listening to the conversation.
The problem with Pinker is he tries to sneak in evolutionary biology as possible explanations whenever he can and although he obviously acknowledges its limitations. he is over-diagnosing. It does have a big role in human health, and sexual selection but his attempt to have it explain our language, morality and cultural capacities have largely failed.
Did Melvyn Bragg always look like Michael Palin in character…
This is a proper debate.
Steve Jones makes a good point but doesn't finish it, if for everything you can imagine an evolutionary explanation, then evolution is unfalsifiable. Pinker makes the retort that not all evolutionary explanations are equivalent (which is true), but that does not address the point.
This was very interesting. As I was listening, though, I thought of an issue that I think would have brought about some interesting opinions: the effect of the welfare state on evolution. Of course, that sort of topic was, and still is, a hot topic politically, but I am curious about what experts such as these have to say about this issue.
Pinker holds his own within a stellar cast.
hmmmm, no mention of a Dawkins word "meme" cultural evolution – certainly the explanation of the many religions. So biological and cultural evolution "happen" Is that too simple?
A what landscape??
we prosecute man for bad behaviour. when will lions advance in the evolutionary scale in such a way that they too will be prosecuted for antelope murder.
14:02 the face of OWNED
Jonathan Miller from 27:29.
I can't stand Jonathan Miller. He is a misfit, not because he is more intelligent and articulate than others, but because his replies are based on argument for the sake of argument. He is quite insincere and a bore, and while the others were making honest and genuine statements, this man seemed (as always) to be overcome with his own "uniqueness". He seems to be saying "Look at me, look at my clever use of language …I am always going to say something different from all of you." As for Pinker, he is the most eloquent and fluent speaker of the English language after Christopher Hitchens. But I like Steve Jones too. He is the most important evolutionary biologist along with Richard Dawkins. And Professor Meredith Small was so down to earth and fresh. Loved the debate.
Pinker is on point. Harvard might have something to do with it.
Check out Steve Jones' facial expressions when young handsome genius, Steve Pinker, dominates these older theories.
A civil conversation – how odd!
Pinker, the master.
professor jones keeps speaking super confidently and loosely, and Pinker rebuts him repeatedly. Really something to see, with a minimum of words and maximum of cogency
what! Jones is a biologist! Pinker keeps schooling him. I don't understand the sloppiness on Jone's part. Jones keeps rolling his eyes and mugging. But Jones sputters away anyway
Just finished the whole thing. Jones really didn't come off well. Everyone else was genial and polite. Jones smirked and huffed and puffed his way through his reactions to each speaker. Looked foolish. Everyone else was reasonable. Pinker was in a class by himself.