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Flights of Fancy

Defying Gravity by Design and Evolution

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Flights of Fancy

By: Richard Dawkins
Narrated by: Richard Dawkins
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About this listen

The wonder of flight. The science of evolution. From both, Richard Dawkins weaves a fascinating account of how nature and humans have learned to overcome the pull of gravity and take to the skies.

Have you ever dreamt you could fly? Or imagined what it would be like to glide and swoop through the sky like a bird? Do you let your mind soar to unknown, magical spaces?

In Flights of Fancy, Richard Dawkins explains how nature and humans have learned to overcome the pull of gravity and take to the skies. From the mythical Icarus, to the sadly extinct but spectacular bird Argentavis magnificens, from the Wright flyer and the 747, to the Tinkerbella fairyfly and the Peregrine falcon. But it is also about flights of the mind, about escaping the everyday - through science, ideas and imagination.

©2021 Richard Dawkins (P)2021 Head of Zeus Biological Sciences Evolution Evolution & Genetics Science

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Dawkins is the eloquent master of science and discovery.
If only our leaders had the courage and imagination to understand the world around them on any meaningful level.

The Master

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An excellent bit Dawkins. Excellent narration. Fascinating insight and easily accessible for non scientist like me.

An excellent bit Dawkins

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Making complex mechanisms easily understandable in a compelling way.
Ruchard Dawkins at his best and without too much of his signature atheism.
Lovely.

Flying high, but not too high

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RD. does an excellent delivery of this , I am extremely biased with his way of thinking and I think he has so many proper answers for this topic he talks about ,
Hope to listen again ,
Martin T

Flights of Fancy

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Dawkins as always an eloquent storyteller, connecting dots in thought provoking fashion. Nothing much new here but very much worth the time in Dawkins company.

Delightful story

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