Richard Dawkins
Evolutionary biologist and author
Richard Dawkins is a British evolutionary biologist and author. He wrote The Selfish Gene and The God Delusion.
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British Born 1941 in Nairobi, Kenya
About Richard Dawkins
Richard Dawkins was born on 26 March 1941 in Nairobi, Kenya. He trained as an ethologist and evolutionary biologist, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society and an emeritus fellow of New College, Oxford. In 1995 he became the first Simonyi Professor for the Public Understanding of Science at Oxford, and he held that post until 2008. In The Selfish Gene (1976), Dawkins presented evolution from the viewpoint of the gene and introduced the term meme. He argued for atheism in The God Delusion (2006), and in 2006 he also founded the Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science. He later wrote a children's book, The Magic of Reality (2011), and is the best-selling author of many books.