Richard Dawkins

**Clinton Richard Dawkins** DSc, FRS, FRSL (born Nairobi, 26 March 1941) is an English  biologist and writer. He is an emeritus Fellow of New College, Oxford, and was the University of Oxford's Simonyi Professor for Public Understanding of Science from 1995 until 2008.

Dawkins is an atheist, a vice president of the British Humanist Association, and a supporter of the Brights movement. 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". As of January 2010, the English-language version had sold more than two million copies and had been translated into 31 languages. Dawkins' ideas on evolution were heavily influenced by W.D. Hamilton. The influence can be seen throughout Dawkins' book _The Selfish Gene_.

### 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)

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- James D. Watson
- List of Nobel laureates by country
- List of Nobel Prize winners in Physiology or Medicine

## Infobox (scientist)

- **name**: Richard Dawkins
- **image**: Richard Dawkins Cooper Union Shankbone.jpg
- **caption**: Dawkins at Cooper Union, New York City in 2010
- **birth name**: Clinton Richard Dawkins
- **birth place**: Nairobi, Kenya Colony, British Kenya
- **citizenship**: United Kingdom
- **education**: Oundle School
- **alma mater**: University of Oxford (MA, DPhil)
- **doctoral advisor**: Nikolaas Tinbergen
- **thesis title**: Selective pecking in the domestic chick
- **thesis url**: http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.710826
- **thesis year**: 1967
- **workplaces**: University of California, Berkeley
New College, Oxford
University of Oxford
New College of the Humanities
- **influences**: Charles Darwin, W. D. Hamilton, Nikolaas Tinbergen
- **influenced**: Andrew F. Read, Helena Cronin, John Krebs, Baron Krebs, David Haig, Alan Grafen, Daniel Dennett, David Deutsch, Steven Pinker, Martin Daly, Margo Wilson, Randolph M. Nesse, Kim Sterelny, Michael Shermer, Richard Harries, Baron Harries of Pentregarth, A. C. Grayling, Marek Kohn, David P. Barash, Matt Ridley, Philip Pullman
- **children**: Juliet Emma
- **signature**: Richard Dawkins signature.svg