Frases de Richard Dawkins (350 citas, página 6)

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Frases célebres de Richard Dawkins

“Lo que me preocupa de la religión es que le enseña a las personas a estar satisfechas con no comprender.”

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Original en inglés: «What worries me about religion is that it teaches people to be satisfied with not understanding».
Heart Of The Matter: God Under The Microscope. BBC, 1996.
1989-2003

“La razón construyó el mundo moderno. Es una cosa preciosa, pero también frágil, que puede ser corrompida por irracionalidad aparentemente inofensiva.”

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Los enemigos de la razón (2007)

“Los creacionistas están negando evidencia científica para sustentar un mito de la Edad de Bronce.”

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“La fe ciega puede justificar lo que sea. Si un hombre cree en un dios diferente, o incluso si usa un ritual diferente para adorar al mismo dios, la fe ciega puede decretar que debe morir ya sea en una cruz, empalado, atravesado por la espada de un cruzado, con un disparo en una calle de Beirut, o dinamitado en un bar en Belfast. Los memes de la fe ciega tienen sus propias maneras inmisericordes de propagarse a sí mismos. Esto es cierto en la fe ciega patriótica y política, al igual que en la religiosa.”

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“Uno de los verdaderamente nefastos efectos de la religión es que nos inculca como virtud el estar satisfechos con el desconocimiento.”

Richard Dawkins libro El espejismo de Dios

The God Delusion

“Sugerir que la primera causa, la gran desconocida que es responsable de que exista algo en vez de nada, es un ser capaz de diseñar el universo y de hablar a millones de personas simultáneamente, es una abdicación total de la responsabilidad de encontrar una explicación. Es una espantosa exhibición de confianza en un gancho celestial, llena de autoindulgencia y negación del pensamiento.”

Richard Dawkins libro El espejismo de Dios

The God Delusion

Frases de Dios de Richard Dawkins

“Muertes en la Biblia: el dios Yahvé mató a 2.270.365 (sin incluir las víctimas de Sodoma y Gomorra, del diluvio de Noé, y de las múltiples plagas, hambrunas, fieras serpientes, etc., porque no se proporcionan cantidades específicas al respecto). Satán mató a 10.”

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“Todos somos ateos respecto a la mayoría de dioses en los que la humanidad ha creído alguna vez. Algunos simplemente vamos un dios más allá.”

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“Los depredadores parecen bellamente "diseñados" para cazar a sus presas, mientras que las presas parecen igual de bellamente "diseñadas" para escapar de ellos. ¿De qué lado está Dios?.”

Richard Dawkins libro El espejismo de Dios

The God Delusion

“No puedo estar seguro de que Dios no existe… En una escala de siete, en la que uno significa que sé que él existe, y siete que sé que no existe, diría que soy un seis… Eso no significa que estoy absolutamente seguro, que lo sé absolutamente, porque no lo estoy.”

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Dawkins en The Telegraph http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religion/9102740/Richard-Dawkins-I-cant-be-sure-God-does-not-exist.html, febrero 24, 2012.

“Lo que no puedo entender es porqué no pueden ver la extraordinaria belleza de la idea de que la vida surgió de la nada – eso es una cosa tan asombrosa, elegante, y maravillosa, ¿por qué querer saturarla con algo tan complicado como un Dios?”

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Durante su conversación con el arzobispo de Canterbury, Dr. Rowan Williams, en The Telegraph, 24 de febrero de 2012. En "Richard Dawkins: No puedo estar seguro de que Dios no existe (en inglés)"

Richard Dawkins Frases y Citas

“Aceptamos alegremente que podemos amar a más de un niño, padre, hermano, profesor, amigo o mascota. Cuando pensamos en esto de esta forma, ¿no es positivamete extraña la total exclusividad que esperamos del amor conyugal?.”

Richard Dawkins libro El espejismo de Dios

The God Delusion

Padre , De amor

“Los genes operan de manera misteriosa.”

Richard Dawkins libro El gen egoísta

The Selfish Gene

“He mantenido conversaciones absolutamente maravillosas con obispos anglicanos, y sospecho que en un momento de franqueza podrían decir que no creen en la inmaculada concepción, Pero por cada uno de ellos hay cuatro que le dirían a un niño que se va a pudrir en el infierno por dudar.”

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Infierno

“Si se mira la Vía Láctea con los ojos de Carl Sagan, nos embarga el sentimiento de algo mayor que nosotros, Y así es. Pero no es sobrenatural.”

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“En un universo de fuerzas físicas ciegas y reproducción genética, unos sufrirán daños y otros no, y es imposible encontrarle el sentido o la justicia”.”

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De justicia , Sentido , Universo

“Si sólo hay un creador que hizo al tigre y al cordero, al guepardo y a la gacela, ¿a qué está jugando? ¿Es un sádico que disfruta siendo espectador de deportes sangrientos?”

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Deporte

“Ya no tenemos que recurrir a la superstición cuando se enfrentan a los problemas profundos: ¿Existe un sentido a la vida? ¿Qué estamos buscando? ¿Qué es el hombre?”

Richard Dawkins libro El gen egoísta

El gen egoísta (1976, 1989)
Original: W«e no longer have to resort to superstition when faced with the deep problems: Is there a meaning to life? What are we for? What is man?»

De hombres , De vida , Problema , Sentido

“El meme para una fe ciega asegura su propia perpetuación por el simple expediente inconsciente de desalentar la investigación racional.”

Richard Dawkins libro El gen egoísta

Original en inglés: «The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry».
El gen egoísta (1976, 1989)

De fe

“El argumento de este libro es que nosotros, y todos los demás animales, somos máquinas creadas por nuestros genes.”

Richard Dawkins libro El gen egoísta

Original en inglés: «The argument of this book is that we, and all other animals, are machines created by our genes».
El gen egoísta (1976, 1989)

De libros , Los animales

“… Se espera del resto de nosotros que defendamos nuestros prejuicios. Pero pedirle a una persona religiosa que justifique su fe, infringe la “libertad religiosa”.”

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«The irrationality of faith» (‘La irracionalidad de la fe’). New Statesman, 31 de marzo de 1989.
1989-2003

De fe , Libertad

“La población de EE. UU. es de 300 millones aproximadamente, e incluye a muchos de los seres humanos mejor educados, más talentosos y más inventivos de la Tierra. Bajo casi cualquier medida de logros civilizados (desde premios Nobeles en adelante) EE. UU. está adelantado al resto del mundo por kilómetros. Uno podría pensar que un país con tales recursos, con semejante campo de talento, sería capaz de elegir a un líder de la más alta calidad. Y sin embargo, ¿qué ha sucedido? Al final de todas las primarias y de todas las camarillas partidarias, los discursos y los debates en televisión, después de un año o más de incansable conmoción eleccionaria, ¿quién surge de toda esa población de 300 millones? George Bush.”

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Original en inglés: «The population of the US is nearly 300 million, including many of the best educated, most talented, most resourceful, humane people on earth. By almost any measure of civilised attainment, from Nobel prize-counts on down, the US leads the world by miles. You would think that a country with such resources, and such a field of talent, would be able to elect a leader of the highest quality. Yet, what has happened? At the end of all the primaries and party caucuses, the speeches and the televised debates, after a year or more of non-stop electioneering bustle, who, out of that entire population of 300 million, emerges at the top of the heap? George Bush».
Artículo de Dawkins en The Guardian del 22 de marzo de 2003.
1989-2003
Fuente: Dawkins, Richard. «Bin Laden's victory.» 22 de marzo de 2003. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2003/mar/22/iraq.usa The Guardian. Consultado el 5 de mayo de 2019.

De paz , De mundo , País

“[El Dios del Antiguo Testamento es], sin duda el personaje más desagradable en toda ficción: celoso y orgulloso de ello, un mezquino, injusto, un controlador implacable, un vengativo limpiador étnico sediento de sangre, un misógino, homófobo, racista, infanticida, genocida, filicida, pestilente, megalómano, sadomasoquista, matón caprichosamente malévolo.”

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Original en inglés: «The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully».
El Espejismo de Dios (2006)
Fuente: Riemen, Rob. Para combatir esta era: Consideraciones urgentes sobre el fascismo y el humanismo. Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial México, 2017. https://books.google.es/books?id=4kbVDgAAQBAJ&pg=PT69&dq=dawkins+%22el+personaje+m%C3%A1s+desagradable+en+toda+ficci%C3%B3n%22&hl=es&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjQh6CtpYXiAhW_BWMBHUfJAfwQ6AEIKDAA#v=onepage&q=dawkins%20%22el%20personaje%20m%C3%A1s%20desagradable%20en%20toda%20ficci%C3%B3n%22&f=false En Google Books. Consultado el 5 de mayo de 2019.

De celos

“La ciencia es la poesía de la realidad.”

Richard Dawkins

Los enemigos de la razón (2007)
Fuente: Ponce, Fausto. Cosas que debes saber antes de cumplir cuarenta. Random House Grupo Editorial México, 2018. https://books.google.es/books?id=qeNVDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT112&dq=dawkins+%C2%ABLa+ciencia+es+la+poes%C3%ADa+de+la+realidad%C2%BB&hl=es&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiVx5iYp4XiAhVQrxoKHUelASUQ6AEIKDAA#v=onepage&q=dawkins%20%C2%ABLa%20ciencia%20es%20la%20poes%C3%ADa%20de%20la%20realidad%C2%BB&f=false En Google Books. Consultado el 5 de mayo de 2019.

Realidad , Ciencia

“Necesitamos favorecer las evidencias verificables por sobre las observaciones personales. O nos colocaremos vulnerables a que nos obscurezcan la verdad.”

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Los enemigos de la razón (2007)

De verdad

“Creo que es escandaloso lo poco que les enseñan a los niños en la escuela de evolución.”

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El genio de Darwin (2008)

De niños , De escuela

“Ocasionalmente recibo una carta de alguien que está en «contacto» con extraterrestres. Se me invita a «preguntarles cualquier cosa». A lo largo de los años he preparado una lista de preguntas. No debemos olvidar que los extraterrestres están muy avanzados. Pregunto, por tanto, cosas como «Por favor, proporcióneme una prueba corta del último teorema de Fermat». O de la conjetura de Goldbach… Nunca recibo una respuesta. Por otro lado, si pregunto algo como «¿deberíamos ser buenos?», casi siempre recibo una respuesta. Estos alienígenas siempre están dispuestos a responder a cualquier cosa vaga, especialmente si involucra los clásicos juicios emocionales. Pero sobre algo específico, en lo que hay una oportunidad de descubrir si realmente saben algo más allá de lo que la mayoría de los humanos saben, solo hay silencio.”

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Evolución. El mayor espectáculo sobre la Tierra

Silencio , Oportunidad , Pregunta

“Debemos enseñar a nuestros hijos el altruismo ya que no podemos esperar que éste forme parte de su naturaleza biológica”

Richard Dawkins libro El gen egoísta

The Selfish Gene

Naturaleza , Hijas

Richard Dawkins: Frases en inglés

“I can't be sure God does not exist… On a scale of seven, where one means I know he exists, and seven I know he doesn't, I call myself a six… That doesn't mean I'm absolutely confident, that I absolutely know, because I don't.”

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Dawkins on The Telegraph http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religion/9102740/Richard-Dawkins-I-cant-be-sure-God-does-not-exist.html, .

“All the world's Muslims have fewer Nobel Prizes than Trinity College, Cambridge. They did great things in the Middle Ages, though.”

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https://twitter.com/RichardDawkins/status/365473573768400896 (8 August 2013)
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“On the Argument from Degree: "That's an argument? You might as well say, people vary in smelliness but we can make the comparison only by reference to a perfect maximum of conceivable smelliness. Therefore there must exist a pre-eminently peerless stinker, and we call him God. Or substitute any dimension of comparison you like, and derive an equivalently fatuous conclusion."”

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Richard Dawkins libro El espejismo de Dios

Fuente: The God Delusion (2006), p. 102

“You could give Aristotle a tutorial. And you could thrill him to the core of his being. Aristotle was an encyclopedic polymath, an all time intellect. Yet not only can you know more than him about the world, you also can have a deeper understanding of how everything works. Such is the privilege of living after Newton, Darwin, Einstein, Planck, Watson, Crick and their colleagues.”

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The Richard Dimbleby Lecture: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder (1996)

“Your DNA may be destined to mingle with mine. Salutations!”

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River out of Eden (1995)

“My last vestige of "hands-off religion" respect disappeared in the smoke and choking dust of September 11, 2001, followed by the "National Day of Prayer", when prelates and pastors did their tremulous Martin Luther King impersonation and urged people of mutually incompatible faiths to hold hands, united in homage to the very force that caused the problem in the first place.”

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Richard Dawkins libro A Devil's Chaplain

"Time to Stand Up"
A Devil's Chaplain (2003)

“The reason Smolin's idea is interesting is that it may answer the challenge, "The universe is too good to be true. It looks like a put-up job." But, note that the Smolin hypothesis cannot be used to account in particular for the BIOLOGICAL part of that "too good to be true". Smolinian selection may account for the fact that our universe has the necessary constants, dimensionality and laws to last for last for a long time (not fizzle out or crunch immediately its initiating bang), long enough to spawn daughter universes (and INCIDENTALLY long enough to breed life). But Smolinian selection cannot account for the fact that our universe is specifically congenial to life, or to intelligent life, or to us. My negative conclusion would break down only if life itself is in the habit of engineering the spawning of daughter universes. As far as I am aware, this hasn't been suggested, but it is, I suppose, a theoretical possibility that daughter universes are generated as a consequence of the fooling around of highly evolved physicists.”

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Richard Dawkins, "Science Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder" https://www.edge.org/conversation/science-delusion-and-the-appetite-for-wonder, John Brockman, Edge.org, 1.2.97.

“It is often said, mainly by the 'no-contests', that although there is no positive evidence for the existence of God, nor is there evidence against his existence. So it is best to keep an open mind and be agnostic. At first sight that seems an unassailable position, at least in the weak sense of Pascal's wager. But on second thoughts it seems a cop-out, because the same could be said of Father Christmas and tooth fairies. There may be fairies at the bottom of the garden. There is no evidence for it, but you can't prove that there aren't any, so shouldn't we be agnostic with respect to fairies?”

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From speech at the Edinburgh International Science Festival, . Frequently misattributed to The God Delusion.
quoted in [EDITORIAL: A scientist's case against God, The Independent (London), April 20, 1992, 17] and [2011-05-27, What Should I Believe?: Philosophical Essays for Critical Thinking, Paul Gomberg, Broadview Press, 9781554810130, 146, http://books.google.com/books?id=76WxxHN9I0kC&pg=PA146&dq=%22Faith+is+the+great+cop-out%22]

“In the case of the cosmos, […] even if we don’t understand how it came about, it’s not helpful to postulate a creator, because the creator is the very kind of thing that needs an explanation - and although it's difficult enough to explain how a very simple origin of the universe came into being - how matter and energy, how one or two physical constants came into existence - although it’s difficult enough to think how simplicity came into existence, it’s a hell of a lot harder to think how something as complicated as a God comes into existence - difficult enough to think of how a deist God comes into existence, and even more difficult to think of - how a Christian God, who actually cares about things like sin and gets Himself born of a virgin.”

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Richard Dawkins vs. John Lennox, 21/10/2008 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0UIbd0eLxw&t=10m38s
"Has Science Buried God?" Debate (2008)

“I'm not clever enough to be a physicist.”

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When asked about why he chose to become a biologist. UR Samtiden - Verklighetens magi http://urplay.se/172258 2012-10-27.

“Suggest always put Islamic "scholar" in quotes, to avoid insulting true scholars. True scholars have read more than one book.”

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https://twitter.com/RichardDawkins/status/492729120418430976 (25 July 2014)
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“To an atheist […], there is no all-seeing all-loving god to keep us free from harm. But atheism is not a recipe for despair. I think the opposite. By disclaiming the idea of the next life, we can take more excitement in this one. The here and now is not something to be endured before eternal bliss or damnation. The here and now is all we have, an inspiration to make the most of it. So atheism is life-affirming, in a way religion can never be. Look around you. Nature demands our attention, begs us to explore, to question. Religion can provide only facile, ultimately unsatisfying answers. Science, in constantly seeking real explanations, reveals the true majesty of our world in all its complexity. People sometimes say "There must be more than just this world, than just this life". But how much more do you want? We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they’re never going to be born. The number of people who could be here, in my place, outnumber the sand grains of Sahara. If you think about all the different ways in which our genes could be permuted, you and I are quite grotesquely lucky to be here, the number of events that had to happen in order for you to exist, in order for me to exist. We are privileged to be alive and we should make the most of our time on this world.”

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End of the part 2: "The Virus of Faith" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMUG6qd98wc
The Root of All Evil? (January 2006)

“The fact that life evolved out of nearly nothing, some 10 billion years after the universe evolved out of literally nothing, is a fact so staggering that I would be mad to attempt words to do it justice.”

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"From tail to tale on the path of pilgrims in life" http://news.scotsman.com/scitech.cfm?id=374772005, The Scotsman ()

“Never say, and never take seriously anyone who says, "I cannot believe that so-and-so could have evolved by gradual selection". I have dubbed this kind of fallacy "the Argument from Personal Incredulity". Time and again, it has proven the prelude to an intellectual banana-skin experience.”

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River out of Eden (1995)

“Islam needs a feminist revolution. It will be hard. What can we do to help?”

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https://twitter.com/RichardDawkins/status/624104581253963776 (22 July 2015)
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“They are in you and me; they created us, body and mind; and their preservation is the ultimate rationale for our existence. They have come a long way, those replicators. Now they go by the name of genes, and we are their survival machines.”

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Richard Dawkins libro El gen egoísta

Fuente: The Selfish Gene (1976, 1989), Ch. 2. The replicators

“I am often accused of expressing contempt and despising religious people. I don't despise religious people, I despise what they stand for. I like to quote the British journalist Johann Hari who said, "I have so much respect for you, that I cannot respect your ridiculous ideas."”

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“But perhaps the rest of us could have separate classes in science appreciation, the wonder of science, scientific ways of thinking, and the history of scientific ideas, rather than laboratory experience.”

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The Richard Dimbleby Lecture: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder (1996)

“Maybe somewhere in some other galaxy there is a super-intelligence so colossal that from our point of view it would be a god. But it cannot have been the sort of God that we need to explain the origin of the universe, because it cannot have been there that early.”

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An Interview by Sheena McDonald (1995)

“It is grindingly, creakingly, crashingly obvious that, if Darwinism were really a theory of chance, it couldn't work.”

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Richard Dawkins libro Climbing Mount Improbable

Fuente: Climbing Mount Improbable (2006), p.77

“Our ethics and our politics assume, largely without question or serious discussion, that the division between human and 'animal' is absolute. 'Pro-life', to take just one example, is a potent political badge, associated with a gamut of ethical issues such as opposition to abortion and euthanasia.
What it really means is pro-human-life. Abortion clinic bombers are not known for their veganism, nor do Roman Catholics show any particular reluctance to have their suffering pets 'put to sleep'. In the minds of many confused people, a single-celled human zygote, which has no nerves and cannot suffer, is infinitely sacred, simply because it is 'human'. No other cells enjoy this exalted status.
But such 'essentialism' is deeply un-evolutionary. If there were a heaven in which all the animals who ever lived could frolic, we would find an interbreeding continuum between every species and every other. For example I could interbreed with a female who could interbreed with a male who could… fill in a few gaps, probably not very many in this case… who could interbreed with a chimpanzee.
We could construct longer, but still unbroken chains of interbreeding individuals to connect a human with a warthog, a kangaroo, a catfish. This is not a matter of speculative conjecture; it necessarily follows from the fact of evolution.
A successful hybridisation between a human and a chimpanzee. Even if the hybrid were infertile like a mule, the shock waves that would be sent through society would be salutary. This is why a distinguished biologist described this possibility as the most immoral scientific experiment he could imagine: it would change everything! It cannot be ruled out as impossible, but it would be surprising.”

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Richard Dawkins Chimpanzee Hybrid? The Guardian, Jan 2009 https://www.theguardian.com/science/blog/2009/jan/02/richard-dawkins-chimpanzee-hybrid?commentpage=2