Richard Dawkins
Clinton Richard Dawkins DSc, FRS, FRSL (born Nairobi, 26 March 1941) is an English [6] biologist and writer.[7] He is an emeritus Fellow of New College, Oxford,[8] and was the University of Oxford's Simonyi Professor for Public Understanding of Science from 1995 until 2008.[9][better source needed]
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| Born | Clinton Richard Dawkins 26 March 1941 (aged 84) | ||||||||||||
| Citizenship | United Kingdom | ||||||||||||
| Education | Oundle School | ||||||||||||
| Alma mater | University of Oxford (MA, DPhil) | ||||||||||||
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| Children | Juliet Emma | ||||||||||||
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| Institutions | University of California, Berkeley New College, Oxford University of Oxford New College of the Humanities | ||||||||||||
| Thesis | Selective pecking in the domestic chick (1967) | ||||||||||||
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| Influences | Charles Darwin, W. D. Hamilton, Nikolaas Tinbergen[4][5] | ||||||||||||
| Influenced | Andrew F. Read,[5] Helena Cronin,[5] John Krebs, Baron Krebs,[5] David Haig,[5] Alan Grafen,[5] Daniel Dennett,[5] David Deutsch,[5] Steven Pinker,[5] Martin Daly,[5] Margo Wilson,[5] Randolph M. Nesse,[5] Kim Sterelny,[5] Michael Shermer,[5] Richard Harries, Baron Harries of Pentregarth,[5] A. C. Grayling,[5] Marek Kohn,[5] David P. Barash,[5] Matt Ridley,[5] Philip Pullman[5] | ||||||||||||
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Dawkins is an atheist, a vice president of the British Humanist Association, and a supporter of the Brights movement.[10] He is well known for his criticism of creationism and intelligent design. In his 2006 book The God Delusion, Dawkins contends that a supernatural creator almost certainly does not exist and that religious faith is a delusion, i.e. "a fixed false belief".[11]: Script error: The function "hyphen2dash" does not exist.  As of January 2010, the English-language version had sold more than two million copies and had been translated into 31 languages.[12] Dawkins' ideas on evolution were heavily influenced by W.D. Hamilton. The influence can be seen throughout Dawkins' book The Selfish Gene.
Works
Books
- "The Selfish Gene" (1976)
- "The Extended Phenotype" (1982)
- "The Blind Watchmaker" (1986)
- "River Out of Eden" (1995)
- "Climbing Mount Improbable" (1996)
- "Unweaving the Rainbow" (1998)
- "A Devil's Chaplain" (2003)
- "The Ancestor's Tale" (2004)
- "The God Delusion" (2006)
- "The Magic of Reality: How We Know What's Really True" (2011)
- An Appetite for Wonder: The Making of a Scientist (2013)
- "The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution" (2009)
Documentaries
- "Nice Guys Finish First" (1987)
- "The Blind Watchmaker" (1987)
- "Growing Up in the Universe" (1991)
- "Break the Science Barrier" (1996)
- "The Root of All Evil?" (2006)
- "The Enemies of Reason" (2007)
- "The Genius of Charles Darwin" (2008)
- Sex, Death and the Meaning of Life (2012)
- Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed (2008)
- Faith School Menace? (2010)
- Beautiful Minds (2012)
- The Unbelievers (2013)
Richard Dawkins Media
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The Great Hall, Oundle School
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At the University of Texas at Austin, March 2008
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Lecturing on his book The God Delusion, 24 June 2006
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Wearing a scarlet 'A' lapel pin, at the 34th annual conference of American Atheists (2008)
- Ariane Sherine and Richard Dawkins at the Atheist Bus Campaign launch.jpg
With Ariane Sherine at the Atheist Bus Campaign launch in London, January 2009
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Speaking at Kepler's Books, Menlo Park, California, 29 October 2006
Discussing free speech and Islam(ism) at the 2017 Conference on Free Expression and Conscience
The Welsh musician Jayce Lewis at Dawkins' home in 2018 while working on Million (Part 2)
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Receiving the Deschner Prize in Frankfurt, 12 October 2007, from Karlheinz Deschner
Related pages
References
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