ladies and gentlemen, please join me in welcoming richard dockens. [applause] >> okay. are we all can you hear me? that sounds bette. not bad. okay. so we have a lot of heavy duty question and things to pond oar tonight so i thought maybe we would start with something a little -- lighter and personal an essay towards end of the book science and the soul. i have a bound gally which -- gives me complete license to write all over these pages which you don't want to do with your copy was book but it shall >> like to o read when you written. some of it is fascinating so i wonder you have this wonderful essay about influenced by charles darwin and dr. doo little how many of you have written dr. doolittle or seen the film with recollection harrison so you know and you pretty much know that's pretty good. >> i do there's similarity between dr. doolittle and at least the young darwin roughly contemporary. and he was the great naturalist like charles darwin and both loved animals and i think i was genuinely influenced by dr. doolittle and never seen anymore of the film thank good