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Steve Coca's avatar

How did it go? I actually dreamt about the event last night (that i was there in person). Will there be video?

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Patrick Scheidegger's avatar

For Richard Dawkins: In "The Greatest Show on Earth", you describe how cave salamanders lost their eyes, because eyes come at a cost and because "most mutations are disadvantageous, if only because they are random and there are many more ways of getting worse than there are ways of getting better." What does this mean for us, with modern medicine and very little natural selection (thankfully)? Does the gene pool of humans slowly accumulate bad mutations, and if so, might genetic engineering save us in the long run? Love your books, Kind regards from Switzerland, Patrick

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