Craig Venter - The Genius of Charles Darwin: The Uncut Interviews

By RICHARD DAWKINS, CRAIG VENTER
Added: Mon, 29 Jun 2009 23:00:00 UTC

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3E25jgPgmzk

(QT coming soon)

Richard Dawkins interviews Craig Venter for "The Genius of Charles Darwin", the Channel 4 UK TV program which won British Broadcasting Awards' "Best Documentary Series" of 2008. Craig Venter founded The Institute for Genomic Research and has been credited with being instrumental in mapping the human genome. His team published the first complete genome of an individual human - Venter's own DNA sequence.

If you enjoy this interview and would like to see more and/or support our ability to bring these to you free online, buy the full 3-DVD set of uncut interviews (over 18 hours) in the RichardDawkins.net store:

This footage was shot with the intention of editing for a television program. What you see here is the full extended interview, which includes a lot of rough camera transitions that were edited out of the final program (along with a lot of content).

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