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Dawkins and Venter: Their Egos Do Fit in the Same Room

Jul 02, 2009

Richard Dawkins stops by to see Craig Venter and gets a tour of his sequencing facility while chatting about the Human Genome Project and how the technology has changed in the intervening years.
(You'll have to set aside a large chunk of time to watch the full video — it runs slightly longer than 50 minutes.)

Thanks to PZ Myers for posting this.

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