Richard Dawkins

About the Author

Richard Dawkins was educated at Oxford University and taught zoology at the University of California and Oxford University, holding the position of the Charles Simonyi Professor of the Public Understanding of Science. He writes about such topics as DNA and genetic engineering, virtual reality, show more astronomy, and evolution. His books include The Selfish Gene, The Extended Phenotype, The Blind Watchmaker, River Out of Eden, Climbing Mount Improbable, The God Delusion, and An Appetite for Wonder: The Making of a Scientist. (Bowker Author Biography) show less

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The God Delusion (2006) 16,618 copies

The Selfish Gene (1976) 10,577 copies

The Blind Watchmaker (1986) 6,236 copies

The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution (2009) 4,489 copies

The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Life (2004) 4,275 copies

Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder (1998) 2,294 copies

River Out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life (1995) 2,108 copies

Climbing Mount Improbable (1996) 2,041 copies

The Magic of Reality: How We Know What's Really True (2011) 1,886 copies

A Devil's Chaplain: Reflections on Hope, Lies, Science, and Love (2003) 1,723 copies

The Extended Phenotype: The Long Reach of the Gene (1982) 1,516 copies

The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing (2008) — Editor — 793 copies

An Appetite for Wonder: The Making of a Scientist (2013) 648 copies

Brief Candle in the Dark: My Life in Science (2018) 275 copies

Outgrowing God: A Beginner's Guide (2019) 254 copies

Science in the Soul: Selected Writings of a Passionate Rationalist (2017) 254 copies

The Four Horsemen: The Conversation That Sparked an Atheist Revolution (2019) 235 copies

The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2003 (2003) — Editor — 234 copies

The View From Mount Improbable (2005) 119 copies

Books do Furnish a Life: An electrifying celebration of science writing (2021) 99 copies

God's Utility Function (1995) 60 copies

Flights of Fancy: Defying Gravity by Design and Evolution (2021) 59 copies

The Extended Selfish Gene (1976) 53 copies

Oxford Illustrated Science Encyclopedia (2001) 21 copies

The Pocket Watchmaker (1996) 16 copies

The God Delusion Debate (2010) 13 copies

Growing Up in the Universe (2004) 8 copies

The "Alabama Insert" (2013) 6 copies

Has Science Buried God? (2010) 5 copies

Caught in The Pulpit: Leaving Belief Behind 5 copies

The Greatest Show on Earth Hardcover Free Press; First Edition edition (2008) 4 copies

The Evolution of Cooperation: Revised Edition 3 copies

EVOLUCIÓN 2 copies

Hall of Mirrors 2 copies

Tinbergen Legacy (1991) — Editor — 2 copies

VIRUSES OF THE MIND: THE 1992 VOLTAIRE LECTURE. (1992) 2 copies

Root of All Evil (2007) 2 copies

On the Origin of Species (2007) 2 copies

The Richard Dawkins Collection (The Genius of Charles Darwin, The Enemies of Reason and The Root of All Evil?) [Region… (2008) 2 copies

The Unbelievers (2015) 1 copy

'Heat the hornet' in TLS 5524, 13 Feb 2009 [review of Jerry Coyne's 'Why Evolution is True'] 1 copy

Vom Virus des Glaubens. Deschner-Preis 2007. (2008) 1 copy

Dawkins, Richard - The Greatest Show on Earth, The Evidence for Evolution 1 copy

Dawkins, Richard - The Selfish Gene 1 copy

Dawkins, Richard - The God Delusion 1 copy

God: The Most Unpleasant Character in All Fiction 1 copy

La fantasía de volar (Spanish Edition) (2023) 1 copy

The Greatest Show on Earth_ The Evidence for Evolution. 1 copy

The Claus Delusion 1 copy

Ewolucja i myślenia 1 copy

Epilogue to The Salmon of Doubt 1 copy

EVEN THE RANKS OF TUSCANY 1 copy

Puncturing Punctuationism 1 copy

Artículos antirreligiosos y anticreacionistas 1 copy

EVOLUCIÓN, CIENCIA, SUPERSTICIÓN 1 copy

Oxford Surveys in Evolutionary Biology: Volume 1: 1984 (1985) 1 copy

Richard Dawkins 3 books Set (The Magic of Reality, The Greatest Show on Earth, The God Delusion) (2016) 1 copy

The Young Oxford Encyclopedia of Science (2003) 1 copy

Richard Dawkins - Appearances & Events 2007-20081 1 copy

Religion's Misguided Missiles & The Improbability of God 1 copy

Science and faith (2004) 1 copy

Dawkins [Opere di] 1 copy

Good And Bad Reasons For Believing 1 copy

The Selfish Gene and The Blind Watchmaker 1 copy

The AAI 2007 Convention. Discs 1-2 1 copy

Why We Believe in God(s): A Concise Guide to the Science of Faith 1 copy

The Evolved Imagination: Animals as models of their world 1 copy

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The Salmon of Doubt (2002) — Afterword, some editions — 6,460 copies

The Mind's I: Fantasies and Reflections on Self and Soul (1981) — Contributor — 2,763 copies

The Descent of Man (1871) — Introduction, some editions — 1,547 copies

A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather than Nothing (2012) — Afterword — 1,475 copies

The Meme Machine (1999) — Foreword — 1,192 copies

Seeing Further: The Story of Science, Discovery, and the Genius of the Royal Society (2010) — Contributor — 993 copies

This Will Make You Smarter: New Scientific Concepts to Improve Your Thinking (2012) — Contributor — 770 copies

Darwin (Norton Critical Edition) (1970) — Contributor — 642 copies

What Is Your Dangerous Idea? Today's Leading Thinkers on the Unthinkable (1914) — Afterword — 617 copies

The Next Fifty Years: Science in the First Half of the Twenty-first Century (2002) — Contributor — 380 copies

The Atheist's Guide to Christmas (2009) — Contributor — 350 copies

Parenting Beyond Belief: On Raising Ethical, Caring Kids Without Religion (2007) — Contributor — 320 copies

Everything You Know About God Is Wrong: The Disinformation Guide to Religion (2007) — Contributor — 293 copies

A Brief History of Science (1609) — Contributor — 99 copies

Imagine There's No Heaven: Voices of Secular Humanism (1997) — Contributor — 90 copies

Attack of the theocrats! (2012) — Foreword — 89 copies

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Nearly Definitive Edition (2014) — some editions — 63 copies

Galapagos: The Islands That Changed the World (2006) — Foreword — 57 copies

Not One More Death (1741) — Contributor — 49 copies

Candidate Without A Prayer: An Autobiography of a Jewish Atheist in the Bible Belt (2012) — Foreword — 48 copies

Inside Nature's Giants (2011) — Foreword — 14 copies

Fresh Air: Faith, Reason and Doubt (2008) — Contributor — 9 copies

Elders : interviews with Andrew Denton (2010) — Contributor — 5 copies

The Hard Problem [theatre programme] — Contributor — 2 copies

Charles Darwin : On the Origin of Species : The definitive guide to the book that changed the world — Introduction — 1 copy

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Common Knowledge

Canonical name: Dawkins, Richard
Legal name: Dawkins, Clinton Richard
Birthdate: 1941-03-26
Gender: male
Nationality: UK
Country (for map): England, UK
Birthplace: Nairobi, Kenya
Places of residence: Nairobi, Kenya
Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, UK
Education: Oxford University (Balliol College|BA|1962)
University of Oxford (PhD|zoology|1966)
Occupations: writer
author
professor
editor
presenter
biologist (show all 7)
atheist activist
Relationships: Ward, Lalla (wife)
Tinbergen, Nikolaas (Doctoral Advisor)
Grafen, Alan (student)
Ridley, Mark (student)
Dawkins, Marian Stamp (ex-wife)
Organizations: Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science
British Humanist Association (Distinguished Supporter)
National Secular Society
Humanist Society of Scotland
International Academy of Humanism
Committee for Skeptical Inquiry (show all 7)
Oxford University
Awards and honors: Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature (1997)
Los Angeles Times Literary Prize (1987)
Michael Faraday Award (1990)
Nakayama Prize (1994)
Kistler Prize (2001)
International Cosmos Prize (1997) (show all 19)
British Book Award (Author of the Year ∙ 2007)
Zoological Society of London Silver Medal (1989)
Finlay innovation award (1990)
Humanist of the Year (1996)
Medal of the Presidency of the Italian Republic (2001)
Bicentennial Kelvin Medal (2002)
The Dawkins Prize from Balliol College is named in his honor
Galaxy British Book Awards Author of the Year Award (2007)
Shakespeare Prize (2005)
Lewis Thomas Prize for Writing about Science (2006)
Time Magazine's 100 Most Influential People in The World (2007)
The Richard Dawkins Award from the Atheist Alliance International is named in his honor
Royal Society (2001)

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Discussions

new book: The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins in philosophy discussions (March 2020)

Richard Dawkins, the champion of logic and reason, fails Logic 101 in Let's Talk Religion (February 2020)

Richard Dawkins: 'immoral' to allow Down's syndrome babies to be born in Pro and Con (August 2017)

Group read: "The god delusion" in Pro and Con (November 2014)

The atheist John Gray on the atheist Richard Dawkins in Let's Talk Religion (November 2014)

GROUP READ - The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins in 75 Books Challenge for 2014 (August 2014)

Dawkins for the beginner in Happy Heathens (May 2014)

The Pilgrimage Begins - Ancestor's Tale in Evolve! (March 2013)

The Ancestor's Tale in Evolve! (February 2013)

Reviews

Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the… by Richard Dawkins

Yup the magic is there and it is real.

½

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BBrookes | 24 other reviews | Dec 2, 2023 |

The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution by Richard Dawkins

All stuff in here that I have for the most part, come across before, but presented in some novel ways and mercilessly unforgiving to creationism. The best titbit I found was a brilliantly elegant description of cell differentiation during division. Now I get it!

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BBrookes | 81 other reviews | Nov 29, 2023 |

The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins

Should be required reading.

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jaylcee | 362 other reviews | Nov 26, 2023 |

Outgrowing God: A Beginner’s Guide by Dawkins Richard

If you want a flashback to naughts era internet atheism this book is for you. Dawkins dresses up an atheism that is really just a critique of Christianity. Islam is mentioned and judaism is implicated by default talking about the OT, but the arguments used all circle the Christian idea of God and especially those of US protestants. The same hill internet atheism died on after intelligent design-creationism was defeated, unable to move the criticism onto other religions or countries.
Very tired old arguments are recycled, much of it amounting to "did you ever notice the Bible says some crazy stuff" or "these bronze age stories don't jive with science". A more general appeal to science & secularism is made, often cribbing or quoting from other luminaries like Dennett, Sagan or Pinker. A big section is devoted to his familiar stomping ground of evolution versus creationism.
Is it too hard on this book to say it's all been covered better before? Even by Dawkins himself. Why read this when you could pick up his previous, better books?… (more)

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A.Godhelm | 7 other reviews | Oct 20, 2023 |

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