Richard Dawkins: What makes us human?
You’ve got a big head. It’s what evolutionary biologist R.Dawkins thinks makes us human.
If chimpanzees are genetically closer to us than Southeast Asian apes such as orang-utans, why have we become more advanced than our primate cousins? Our huge, magnificent brains, that's why.
And it's a complicated world that we are living in. The chances of you being born are roughly one in 400 trillion, or 4Γ—1014 to show-off. This means that it's a miracle that you are here reading this right now.
Hear the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ's Jeremy Vine discuss the phenomenon of human existence and its definition with Dawkins.
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