Growing Up in the Universe (1991)

Genre

nature documentary

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

5h

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A series of televised lectures given by Richard Dawkins about how life evolved in the universe. The lectures were first shown on the BBC in 1991.

educationalthought-provokinginstructivecuriouswonderintelligentengaging

What happens

Growing Up in the Universe was a series of televised public lectures given by British evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins as part of the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures, in which he discussed the evolution of life in the universe. The lectures were first broadcast on the BBC in 1991, in the form of five one-hour episodes. The Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science was granted the rights to the televised lectures, and a DVD version was released by the foundation on 20 April 2007. Dawkins' book Climbing Mount Improbable (1996) was developed from the ideas presented in the lectures, and the title itself was taken from the third lecture in the series. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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