Richard Dawkins
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Richard Dawkins, born in Nairobi in 1941, is the Charles
Simonyi Professor for the Public Understanding of Science
at Oxford. He is one of the most influential scientist of
out time. He lives in Oxford, England.
Richard Dawkins's books have changed the way professional
evolutionary scientists think, while at the same time
continuing to
sell millions of copies to general readers. Born in Kenya
of British
parents, he was educated at Oxford and did his doctorate
under the
Nobel-prize winning zoologist Niko Tinbergen. His six
books, The Selfish Gene, The Extended Phenotype, The Blind Watchmaker, River Out of Eden, Climbing Mount
Improbable, and Unweaving the Rainbow
will be followed in 2003 by A Devil's Chaplain, a
volume of selected essays. He lectures all over the
world, and has
presented scientific programs on British television. His
awards include
the Michael Faraday Award of the Royal Society, the Silver
Medal of the
Zoological Society of London, the International Cosmos
Prize, the
Nakayama Prize and the Kistler Prize. He is a Fellow of the
Royal
Society of Literature as well as a Fellow of the the Royal
Society, and
has Honorary Doctorates in literature as well as in science.
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Series
Books:An Appetite for Wonder, October 2013
Hardcover / e-Book
The Magic Of Reality, September 2012
Paperback / e-Book (reprint)
The Greatest Show on Earth, October 2009
Hardcover
The God Delusion, September 2006
Hardcover
The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution, September 2005
Trade Size (reprint)
The Selfish Gene, October 1990
Popular Science
Trade Size (reprint)
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