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Richard Dawkins FRS FRSL (born 26 March 1941) [3] is a British evolutionary biologist, zoologist, science communicator and author. [4] He is an emeritus fellow of New College, Oxford, and was Professor for Public Understanding of Science in the University of Oxford from 1995 to 2008.
Richard Dawkins (born March 26, 1941, Nairobi, Kenya) is a British evolutionary biologist, ethologist, and popular-science writer who emphasized the gene as the driving force of evolution and generated significant controversy with his enthusiastic advocacy of atheism.
The following list of publications by Richard Dawkins is a chronological list of papers, articles, essays and books published by British ethologist and evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins. He has also written many book reviews and newspaper articles which are not listed on this page.
Clinton Richard Dawkins DSc, FRS, FRSL (born Nairobi, 26 March 1941) is an English [24] biologist, evolutionist, and writer. [25] He is an emeritus Fellow of New College, Oxford , [ 26 ] and was the University of Oxford 's Simonyi Professor for Public Understanding of Science from 1995 until 2008.
The Selfish Gene is a 1976 book on evolution by ethologist Richard Dawkins, in which the author builds upon the principal theory of George C. Williams 's Adaptation and Natural Selection (1966).
The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe without Design is a 1986 book by Richard Dawkins, in which the author presents an explanation of, and argument for, the theory of evolution by means of natural selection.
Dawkins’ The Selfish Gene, published in 1976, was read by sixth formers and spawned a rush in popular science books. But its neo-Darwinian thesis – that what an animal is doing is maximising its genetic representation in future generations – was of huge professional, as well as public, influence.