‘My Hero.’ Richard Dawkins on Charles Darwin Interviewed by Paula Kirby Filmed at Cheltenham Science Festival, 4 June 2008 Richard Dawkins is one of Britain’s foremost scientists. A zoologist and fellow of New College, Oxford, he now holds the Charles Simonyi Chair for the Public Understanding of Science. He is the author of best selling books including The Selfish [...] Continue Reading…

Full program: video.google.com Mutations in human DNA are used to show relationships and evolutionary history. Mitochondrial DNA — maternal DNA — is used to construct evolutionary trees. Since the findings from the Human Genome Project and other studies linking human DNA to that of primates, there has been an enormous amount of research producing powerful evidence of evolution in [...] Continue Reading…

Even before Darwin, biologists recognized that species that looked quite different as adults often had close similarities as developing embryos. Many four — legged animals go through embryonic stages that have similar features — gill arches, a notochord, segmentation, and paddle-like limb buds — as they develop into different adults. To Darwin, the embryonic resemblances were strong support for [...] Continue Reading…