Clinton Richard Dawkins (born March 26, 1941) is a British ethologist, evolutionary biologist, and popular science writer who holds the Charles Simonyi Chair for the Public Understanding of Science at Oxford University. Dawkins first came to prominence with his 1976 book "The Selfish Gene", which popularised the gene-centered view of evolution and introduced the term meme into the lexicon, helping found memetics.
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and has taught zoology at the universities of California and Oxford. www.simonyi.ox.ac.uk/dawkins/WorldOfDawkins-archive/index... |
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In The Selfish
Gene , Richard Dawkins "gently and expertly debunks some
of the favorite illusions of social biology about
altruism," writes Peter Medawar in the Spectator. richarddawkins.com/ |
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The definitive Wikipedia entry for Richard Dawkins. Wikipedia is the biggest multilingual free-content encyclopedia on the Internet. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Dawkins |
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"Some
people object to Dawkins as being what I now call a greedy reductionist--that
is, they think he's vastly obersimplifying, trying to get the job done
with too few levels of explanation. www.edge.org/3rd_culture/bios/dawkins.html |
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Similar questions re-occur, in various guises, in much of the correspondence sent to Professor Dawkins. www.simonyi.ox.ac.uk/dawkins/FAQs.shtml |
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Professor Richard Dawkins is the first holder of the newly endowed Charles Simonyi Chair in the Public Understanding of Science at the University of Oxford. www.simonyi.ox.ac.uk/dawkins/index.shtml |
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