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Richard Dawkins

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113 total appearances

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TED Talks Daily
The link between evolution and language | Richard Dawkins

It's a little bit different than your dribble.

TED Talks Daily
The link between evolution and language | Richard Dawkins

It's a dead vestige.

TED Talks Daily
The link between evolution and language | Richard Dawkins

And the most interesting example of this, it's kind of fossil, it's gone, is the sense of smell.

TED Talks Daily
The link between evolution and language | Richard Dawkins

As you know, humans have a very poor sense of smell compared to many other mammals.

TED Talks Daily
The link between evolution and language | Richard Dawkins

The interesting thing is that we still have the genes that would make us have that kind of sense of smell.

TED Talks Daily
The link between evolution and language | Richard Dawkins

They've just been turned off.

TED Talks Daily
The link between evolution and language | Richard Dawkins

So we have a whole repertoire of ancient mammal smell genes.

TED Talks Daily
The link between evolution and language | Richard Dawkins

They've just simply been switched off.

TED Talks Daily
The link between evolution and language | Richard Dawkins

They're vestiges.

TED Talks Daily
The link between evolution and language | Richard Dawkins

their pseudo genes, I sort of feel if only they could be turned back on again, we would experience wonderful exotic perfumes that we cannot imagine and I could imagine the,

TED Talks Daily
The link between evolution and language | Richard Dawkins

sort of wine connoisseurs would go far beyond the inklings of lead pencil mixed with blackberry in the satisfying finish, that kind of thing.

TED Talks Daily
The link between evolution and language | Richard Dawkins

I mean, that would go way, way beyond if only we had all these genes turned on.

TED Talks Daily
The link between evolution and language | Richard Dawkins

Have you tried hardle, by the way?

TED Talks Daily
The link between evolution and language | Richard Dawkins

Hardle.

TED Talks Daily
The link between evolution and language | Richard Dawkins

Oh, it's wonderful.

TED Talks Daily
The link between evolution and language | Richard Dawkins

It's just much more difficult.

TED Talks Daily
The link between evolution and language | Richard Dawkins

If I were to go into a Glasgow pub...

TED Talks Daily
The link between evolution and language | Richard Dawkins

and say, , I would probably get thumped.

TED Talks Daily
The link between evolution and language | Richard Dawkins

But if I were to go into an Amsterdam pub and attempt to speak Dutch, they would be all over me.

TED Talks Daily
The link between evolution and language | Richard Dawkins

They love you, right.