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You're listening to TED Talks Daily, where we bring you new ideas to spark your curiosity every day. I'm your host, Elise Hugh. How do you end a story? In this archive talk from TED 2020, host of Radiolab, Jad Abumrad, tells us how his search for an answer led him home to the mountains of Tennessee, where he met an unexpected teacher, Dolly Parton.

That place where the things we hold as different resolve themselves into something new. Thank you.

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Kiitos, että katsoitte.

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Across species, communication shapes literally everything in the world, according to the legendary evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins.

In this fascinating conversation with linguist and TED guest curator John McWhorter, Richard dissects why communication is the thread that ties us all together and how our genes may be the ones pulling the strings.

That was Richard Dawkins in conversation with John McWhorter at TED 2025.

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And that's it for today.

TED Talks Daily is part of the TED Audio Collective.

This talk was fact-checked by the TED Research Team and produced and edited by our team, Martha Estefanos, Oliver Friedman, Brian Green, Lucy Little, and Tansika Sungmarnivong.

This episode was mixed by Christopher Faisy-Bogan.

Additional support from Emma Taubner and Daniela Balarezo.

I'm Elise Hugh.

I'll be back tomorrow with a fresh idea for your feed.

Thanks for listening.

You're listening to TED Talks Daily, where we bring you new ideas to spark your curiosity every day.

I'm your host, Elise Hugh.