Clinton Richard Dawkins DSc, FRS, FRSL (born Nairobi, 26 March 1941) is an English biologist, evolutionist, and writer.
He is an emeritus Fellow of New College, Oxford, and was the University of Oxford's Simonyi Professor for Public Understanding of Science from 1995 until 2008.
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Born | Clinton Richard Dawkins 26 March 1941 |
Citizenship | United Kingdom |
Education | Oundle School |
Alma mater | University of Oxford (MA, DPhil) |
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Children | Juliet Emma |
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Institutions | University of California, Berkeley New College, Oxford University of Oxford New College of the Humanities |
Thesis | Selective pecking in the domestic chick (1967) |
Doctoral advisor | Nikolaas Tinbergen |
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Influences | Charles Darwin, W. D. Hamilton, Nikolaas Tinbergen |
Influenced | Andrew F. Read, Helena Cronin, John Krebs, Baron Krebs, David Haig, Alan Grafen, Daniel Dennett, David Deutsch, Steven Pinker, Martin Daly, Margo Wilson, Randolph M. Nesse, Kim Sterelny, Michael Shermer, Richard Harries, Baron Harries of Pentregarth, A. C. Grayling, Marek Kohn, David P. Barash, Matt Ridley, Philip Pullman |
Website | richarddawkins |
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Dawkins is an atheist, a vice president of the British Humanist Association, and a supporter of the Brights movement. He is well known for his criticism of creationism and intelligent design. In his 2006 book The God Delusion, Dawkins contends that a supernatural creator almost certainly does not exist and that religious faith is a delusion—"a fixed false belief".: 5 As of January 2010, the English-language version had sold more than two million copies and had been translated into 31 languages.
Dawkins' ideas on evolution were heavily influenced by W.D. Hamilton. The influence can be seen throughout Dawkins' book The Selfish Gene.
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