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About Richard Dawkins
British evolutionary biologist, zoologist, science communicator, atheist activist, and author
Richard Dawkins is a British evolutionary biologist, zoologist, science communicator, atheist activist, and author. He is an emeritus fellow of New College, Oxford. In 1995 he became the first Simonyi Professor for the Public Understanding of Science, a post he held until 2008. Dawkins is known for writing and speaking about evolution, science, and atheism, and for explaining science to a broad audience. He has received several academic and literary honors, including the 2005 Shakespeare Prize and the 2006 Lewis Thomas Prize.
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Books by Richard Dawkins
The God Delusion
2006
The Selfish Gene
1995
The Blind Watchmaker
1990
The Ancestor's Tale
2005
The Greatest Show on Earth
2009