Lecture 3 - The Principle of Evolution: Absolute Simplicity

07/09/2008 51 min
Lecture 3 - The Principle of Evolution: Absolute Simplicity

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Professor David Penny CNZM FRSNZ, Research Director, Allan Wilson Centre for Molecular Ecology and Evolution, Massey University. Can we find anything in biology that is not understandable, or not explainable, by the things we can observe and measure in the present? Evolution is, by far, the simplest possible way of understanding ourselves, our past, and our future. Recorded 20 August in Palmerston North.