The world-famous evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins presents the Royal Institution CHRISTMAS LECTURES in 1991.

Original broadcast live on the BBC, the series explored "our own growing knowledge of how life grows up in the universe."

This is the first lecture in the series entitled "Waking up in the Universe".

View the FULL SERIES of CHRISTMAS LECTURES by Richard Dawkins on the Ri Channel: http://richannel.org/christmas-lectures/1991/richard-dawkins

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