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Join Richard Dawkins for a ground-breaking exploration of the science of genetics and the story of evolution as you have never heard it before. Richard Dawkins, creator of the term 'meme' and the influential 'selfish gene' model of evolution, is a rare public intellectual whose ideas have reshaped science and culture. Marking the 50th anniversary of The Selfish Gene, he joins audiences across the UK to revisit the world-famous concepts that made his name at 35 and transformed life sciences. Drawing on new research, he presents a ground-breaking view of evolution in which every organism is an archive of ancestral worlds – a 'genetic book of the dead'. Dawkins explores striking examples of natural selection's power, what the gene's-eye view reveals about being human, and provocatively asks whether our genes might be seen as a vast colony of cooperating viruses. Premium Tickets to these events include a copy of Richard Dawkins's The Genetic Book of the Dead.

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