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How Far Can Darwin Take Us?

20 May 2009

Speakers: Adam Gopnik, Steven Pinker

Adam Gopnik, author of Angels & Ages, A Short Book About Darwin, Lincoln and Modern Life (2009) and Steven Pinker, author of The Blank Slate (2003) and many other works, discuss a fundamental question: how far can Darwin take us as a guide to why we are the way we are?

Both outspoken appreciators of Darwin, Adam Gopnik and Steven Pinker compare their visions - sometimes complementary, sometimes contrasting - of the significance of Darwin’s legacy on the two hundredth anniversary of his birth.

This video was kindly provided by The New York Public Library

Adam Gopnik

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Steven Pinker

Johnstone Family Professor in the Department of Psychology at Harvard University

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