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Richard Dawkins

14 books · 7 readers

Richard Dawkins is a British evolutionary biologist and zoologist who writes popular science, best known for The Selfish Gene (1976), which set out the gene-centred view of evolution and introduced the word meme. His other books on evolution include The Blind Watchmaker (1986) and Climbing Mount Improbable (1996), and The God Delusion (2006) makes the case for atheism. From 1995 to 2008 he held the Simonyi Professorship for the Public Understanding of Science, and he is an emeritus fellow of New College, Oxford.

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  1. The God DelusionThe God Delusion20064.04 readers
  2. The Selfish GeneThe Selfish Gene19763.02 readers
  3. The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without DesignThe Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design19864.01 reader

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14 books

1976

  1. The Selfish Gene

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1981

  1. The Extended Phenotype

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1995

  1. River Out of Eden

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1996

  1. Climbing Mount Improbable

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1998

  1. Unweaving the Rainbow

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2006

  1. The God Delusion

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2015

  1. Brief Candle in the Dark

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