Clinton Richard Dawkins, FRS, FRSL is a British ethologist, evolutionary biologist and popular science author. He was formerly Professor for Public Understanding of Science at Oxford and was a fellow of New College, Oxford.
Dawkins came to prominence with his 1976 book The Selfish Gene, which popularised the gene-centred view of evolution and introduced the term meme. In 1982, he made a widely cited contribution to evolutionary biology with the concept, presented in his book The Extended Phenotype, that the phenotypic effects of a gene are not necessarily limited to an organism's body, but can stretch far into the environment, including the bodies of other organisms.
Dawkins is well known for his candid criticism of creationism and intelligent design. In his 1986 book The Blind Watchmaker, he argued against the watchmaker analogy, an argument for the existence of a supernatural creator based upon the complexity of living organisms. Instead, he described evolutionary processes as analogous to a blind watchmaker. He has since written several popular science books, and makes regular television and radio appearances, predominantly discussing these topics.
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Science, Evolution, Evolution (Biology), Genetics, Natural selection, Philosophy, Biological Evolution, Biology, Atheism, Evolutie, New York Times bestseller, Religion and science, Evolutionstheorie, Genetic Selection, Great britain, biography, Human evolution, Natuurlijke selectie, New York Times reviewed, Scientists, biography, evolution, Biography, Cosmology, Ethologists, History, Life, originPeople
Charles Darwin (1809-1882), Charles Darwin, Douglas Adams, God, Niko Tinbergen (1907-), Richard Dawkins, Richard Dawkins (1941-), William PaleyTime
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- OLID: OL236174A
- ISNI: 0000000121208079
- VIAF: 12307054
- Wikidata: Q44461
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- R. Dawkins
- Dawkins Richard
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