English evolutionary biologist and author (born 1941)
For the archaeologist, see Richard MacGillivray Dawkins.
Richard Dawkins
FRS FRSL
Dawkins in 2022
Born
Clinton Richard Dawkins
(1941-03-26) 26 March 1941 (age 83)
Nairobi, British Kenya
Education
Oundle School Balliol College, Oxford (MA, DPhil)
Known for
Gene-centred view of evolution
Concept of the meme
Middle World
Extended phenotype
Advocacy of science; criticism of religion; "New Atheism"[2]
Spouses
Marian Stamp
(m. 1967; div. 1984)
Eve Barham
(m. 1984, divorced)
Lalla Ward
(m. 1992; sep.Tooltip separated 2016)
Children
1
Awards
ZSL Silver Medal (1989)
Michael Faraday Prize (1990)
International Cosmos Prize (1997)
Nierenberg Prize (2009)
FRS (2001)[1]
Scientific career
Institutions
University of California, Berkeley
University of Oxford
New College of the Humanities
Thesis
Selective pecking in the domestic chick(1967)
Doctoral advisor
Nikolaas Tinbergen
Richard Dawkins introduces himself. (Recorded November, 2016.)
Website
richarddawkins.com
Signature
Richard DawkinsFRS FRSL (born 26 March 1941)[3] is a British evolutionary biologist, zoologist, 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. His 1976 book The Selfish Gene popularised the gene-centred view of evolution, as well as coining the term meme. Dawkins has won several academic and writing awards.[5]
Dawkins is well known for his criticism of creationism and intelligent design as well as for being a vocal atheist.[6] Dawkins wrote The Blind Watchmaker in 1986, arguing against the watchmaker analogy, an argument for the existence of a supernatural creator based upon the complexity of living organisms. Instead, he describes evolutionary processes as analogous to a blind watchmaker, in that reproduction, mutation, and selection are unguided by any sentient designer. In 2006, Dawkins published The God Delusion, writing that a supernatural creator almost certainly does not exist and that religious faith is a delusion. He founded the Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science in 2006.[7][8] Dawkins has published two volumes of memoirs, An Appetite for Wonder (2013) and Brief Candle in the Dark (2015).
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^Fahy, Declan (2015). The New Celebrity Scientists: Out of the Lab and into the Limelight. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.
^"British scientists don't like Richard Dawkins, finds study that didn't even ask questions about Richard Dawkins". Independent.co.uk. 18 January 2017. Archived from the original on 9 June 2020. Retrieved 26 June 2020.
^Elmhirst, Sophie (9 June 2015). "Is Richard Dawkins destroying his reputation?". The Guardian.(Op-ed)
^"Richard Dawkins on Charles Darwin". BBC News. 14 February 2009.
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