Aubrey Manning Discussion (2/5) - Richard Dawkins
Richard Dawkins sits down with Aubrey Manning to discuss Ethology, their time at Oxford, the state of life on Earth, and more. This video is brought to you free online by RichardDawkins.net...
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Aubrey, a lot of your work has been on behavioral genetics and, it is a very fascinating subject. I often feel that people get confused about behavioral genetics and behavior development. And are they right to do so? And, obviously its not right to get confused but, do see a clear distinction between genetics and and development that some people miss? Manning: I mean, there are numerous problems here. I've been struck - my wife is a child psychotherapist having done a PhD in ethology, really, well, not really, she did a PhD in ethology. So she's that science background. I've been fascinated and really rather alarmed to discover amongst quite a few of her extremely clever colleagues, they mix up, they use the term evolution in a very loose ki...
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Aubrey, a lot of your work has been on behavioral genetics and, it is a very fascinating subject. I often feel that people get confused about behavioral genetics and behavior development. And are they right to do so? And, obviously its not right to get confused but, do see a clear distinction between genetics and and development that some people miss? Manning: I mean, there are numerous problems here. I've been struck - my wife is a child psychotherapist having done a PhD in ethology, really, well, not really, she did a PhD in ethology. So she's that science background. I've been fascinated and really rather alarmed to discover amongst quite a few of her extremely clever colleagues, they mix up, they use the term evolution in a very loose ki...
