David Attenborough on Darwin

British broadcaster Sir David Attenborough presents his views on Charles Darwin, natural selection, and how the Bible has put the natural world in peril in an exclusive interview for Nature Video.



To celebrate Darwin's bicentenary Nature is also providing selected content FREE online, including continuously updated news, research and analysis on Darwin's life, his science and his legacy.

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Origins And Evolution by Bill Nye

Discovery Channel: Greatest Discoveries: The Origin and Evolution of Life.
Hosted by Bill Nye

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Bonobo apes that write, start fires and drive

Savage-Rumbaugh's work with bonobo apes, which can understand spoken language and learn tasks by watching, forces the audience to rethink how much of what a species can do is determined by biology -- and how much by cultural exposure.



TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers are invited to give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes -- including speakers such as Jill Bolte Taylor, Sir Ken Robinson, Hans Rosling, Al Gore and Arthur Benjamin. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, and Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, politics and the arts.