The world-famous evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins presents the Royal Institution CHRISTMAS LECTURES in 1991. <br /><br />Original broadcast live on the BBC, the series explored "our own growing knowledge of how life grows up in the universe."<br /><br />This is the first lecture in the series entitled "Waking up in the Universe".<br /><br />View the FULL SERIES of CHRISTMAS LECTURES by Richard Dawkins on the Ri Channel: http://richannel.org/christmas-lectures/1991/richard-dawkins<br /><br />The Ri is on Twitter: http://twitter.com/ri_science<br />and Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/royalinstitution<br />Subscribe for the latest science videos: http://richannel.org/newsletter
