The Royal Institution Christmas Lectures
The Ultraviolet Garden
1991 • E4 Dec 30, 1991 60m
Dawkins begins by relating the story of asking a little girl "what she thought flowers were 'for'." Her response is anthropocentric, that flowers are there for our benefit. Dawkins points out that many people throughout history have thought that the natural world existed for our benefit, with examples from Genesis and other literature.
