Uploaded July 2026 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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🗣️ The field of biology as a broad discipline, but more specifically evolutionary biology and ultimately genetics, was founded not in parallel with political ideologies, but in service of them.

This clip is taken from Adam Rutherford's lecture, The dark history of genetics, which is available to watch in full on our YouTube channel.

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