Richard Dawkins

Richard Dawkins is an evolutionary biologist whose books including the 1986 ‘Selfish Gene’ have helped to popularise the gene centric view of evolution.  He is also credited with introducing other revolutionary concepts such as the extended phenotype.

He is an Emeritus Fellow of New College, Oxford, and held the position of Professor for Public Understanding of Science at Oxford University from 1995 – 2008.

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Honorary Doctorates

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  • University of Huddersfield
  • University of Westminster
  • Durham University
  • University of Hull
  • University of Antwerp
  • University of Aberdeen
  • Open University
  • Vrije Universiteit Brussel
  • University of Valenci
  • University of St Andrews
  • Australian National University

Awards

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  • 1987 – Royal Society of Literature Award (for the book The Blind Watchmaker)
  • 1987 – Los Angeles Times Literary Prize (for the book The Blind Watchmaker).
  • 1987 – Sci. Tech Prize for Best Television Documentary Science Programme of the Year (for the BBC Horizon episode The Blind Watchmaker)
  • 1989 – Zoological Society of London Silver Medal
  • 1990 – Finlay innovation award
  • 1990 – Michael Faraday Award
  • 1994 – Nakayama Prize
  • 1996 – American Humanist Association’s Humanist of the Year Award
  • 1997 – 5th International Cosmos Prize
  • 2001 – Kistler Prize
  • 2001 – Medal of the Presidency of the Italian Republic
  • 2002 – Bicentennial Kelvin Medal of The Royal Philosophical Society of Glasgow
  • 2005 – Hamburg-based Alfred Toepfer Foundation Shakespeare Prize i
  • 2006 – Lewis Thomas Prize for Writing about Science
  • 2007 – Galaxy British Book Awards Author of the Year Award
  • 2007 – Deschner Award
  • 2009 – Nierenberg Prize for Science in the Public Interest

Books

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  • Dawkins, R. (1976). The Selfish Gene. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-286092-5.
  • Dawkins, R. (1982). The Extended Phenotype. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-288051-9.
  • Dawkins, R. (1986). The Blind Watchmaker. New York: W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN 0-393-31570-3.
  • Dawkins, R. (1995). River Out of Eden. New York: Basic Books. ISBN 0-465-06990-8.
  • Dawkins, R. (1996). Climbing Mount Improbable. New York: W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN 0-393-31682-3.
  • Dawkins, R. (1998). Unweaving the Rainbow. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. ISBN 0-618-05673-4.
  • Dawkins, R. (2003). A Devil’s Chaplain. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. ISBN 0-618-33540-4.
  • Dawkins, R. (2004). The Ancestor’s Tale. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. ISBN 0-618-00583-8.
  • Dawkins, R. (2006). The God Delusion. New York: Bantam Books. ISBN 0-618-68000-4.
  • Various (2008). Richard Dawkins. ed. The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-199-21680-0.
  • Dawkins, R. (2009). The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution. Free Press (United States), Transworld (United Kingdom and Commonwealth). ISBN 0-593-06173-X.

Academic papers

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1960s

  • Dawkins, R. (1968). ”The ontogeny of a pecking preference in domestic chicks”. Z Tierpsychol 25 (2): 170–86. doi:10.1111/j.1439-0310.1968.tb00011.x. PMID 5684149.
  • Dawkins, R. (1969). ”Bees Are Easily Distracted”. Science 165 (3895): 751. doi:10.1126/science.165.3895.751. PMID 17742255.

1970s

  • Dawkins, R. (1971). ”Selective neurone death as a possible memory mechanism”. Nature 229 (5280): 118–119. doi:10.1038/229118a0.
  • Dawkins, R. (1976). ”Growing points in ethology”. In Bateson, P.P.G. and Hinde, R.A.. Hierarchical organization: A candidate principle for ethology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Dawkins, R.; Carlisle, T.R. (1976). ”Parental investment, mate desertion and a fallacy”. Nature 262 (5564): 131–133. doi:10.1038/262131a0.
  • Treisman, M.; Dawkins, R. (1976). ”The “cost of meiosis”: is there any?”. Journal of Theoretical Biology (London: Academic Press) 63 (2): 479–484. doi:10.1016/0022-5193(76)90047-3. PMID 1011857.
  • Dawkins, R. (1976). ”Universal Darwinism”. In Bendall, D.S.. Evolution from Molecules to Men. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 403–425.
  • Dawkins R (1978). ”Replicator selection and the extended phenotype”. Z Tierpsychol 47 (1): 61–76. doi:10.1111/j.1439-0310.1978.tb01823.x. PMID 696023.
  • Dawkins, R.; Krebs, J.R. (1978). ”Animal signals: information or manipulation”. Behavioural Ecology: An Evolutionary Approach. Oxford: Blackwell Scientific Publications. pp. 282–309.
  • Dawkins, R. (1979). ”Twelve Misunderstandings of Kin Selection”. Zeitschrift für Tierpsychologie 51: 184–200. doi:10.1111/j.1439-0310.1979.tb00682.x.
  • Dawkins R, Krebs JR (1979). ”Arms races between and within species”. Proc. R. Soc. Lond., B, Biol. Sci. 205 (1161): 489–511. doi:10.1098/rspb.1979.0081. PMID 42057.
  • Brockmann, H.J.; Dawkins, R.; Grafen A. (1979). ”Joint nesting in a digger wasp as an evolutionarily stable preadaptation to social life”. Behaviour (London: Academic Press) 71 (3): 203–244. doi:10.1163/156853979X00179.
  • Dawkins, Richard; Brockmann, H.J., Grafen, A. (1979). ”Evolutionarily stable nesting strategy in a digger wasp”. Journal of Theoretical Biology 77 (4): 473–496. doi:10.1016/0022-5193(79)90021-3. PMID 491692.

1980s

  • Dawkins, R. (1980). ”Good strategy or evolutionarily stable strategy”. In Barlow, G.W. and Silverberg, J.. Sociobiology: Beyond Nature/Nurture?. Colorado: Westview Press. pp. 331–337. ISBN 0-89-158960-0.
  • Dawkins, Richard; Brockmann, H.J. (1980). ”Do digger wasps commit the concorde fallacy?”. Animal Behaviour 28 (3): 892–896. doi:10.1016/S0003-3472(80)80149-7.
  • Dawkins, Richard (1981). ”In defence of selfish genes”. Philosophy 56 (218): 556–573. doi:10.1017/S0031819100050580.
  • Krebs, J.R.; Dawkins, R. (1984). ”Animal signals: mind-reading and manipulation”. In Krebs, J. R. and Davies, N.B.. Behavioural Ecology: An Evolutionary Approach. Oxford: Blackwell Scientific Publications. pp. 380–402. ISBN 0632027029.

1990s

  • Dawkins, R. (1990). ”Parasites, desiderata lists and the paradox of the organism”. Parasitology. 100 Suppl: S63–73. PMID 2235064.
  • Dawkins, R. (June 1991). ”Evolution on the Mind”. Nature 351 (6329): 686. doi:10.1038/351686c0.
  • Hurst, L.D.; Dawkins, R. (May 1992). ”Evolutionary Chemistry: Life in a Test Tube”. Nature 357 (6375): 198–199. doi:10.1038/357198a0. PMID 1375346.
  • Dawkins, R. (1994). ”Evolutionary biology. The eye in a twinkling”. Nature 368 (6473): 690–1. doi:10.1038/368690a0. PMID 8152479.
  • Dawkins, R. (September 1995). ”The Evolved Imagination”. Natural History 104 (9): 8.
  • Dawkins, R. (December 1994). ”Burying The Vehicle”. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 17 (4): 616–617. doi:10.1017/S0140525X00036207.[dead link]
  • Dawkins, R.; Holliday, Robin (August 1997). ”Religion and Science”. BioEssays 19 (8): 743. doi:10.1002/bies.950190817.
  • Dawkins, R. (1997). ”The Pope’s message on evolution: Obscurantism to the rescue”. The Quarterly Review of Biology 72 (4): 397–399.
  • Dawkins, R. (1998). ”Intellectual Imposters”. Nature 394 (6689): 141–143.
  • Dawkins, R. (1998). ”Arresting evidence”. Sciences (New York) 38 (6): 20–25. PMID 11657757.

2000s

  • Dawkins, R. (2000). ”W. D. Hamilton memorial”. Nature 405 (6788): 733.
  • Dawkins, R. (2002). ”Should doctors be Darwinian?”. Transactions of the Medical Society of London 119: 15–30. PMID 17184029.
  • Blakemore C, Dawkins R, Noble D, Yudkin M (2003). ”Is a scientific boycott ever justified?”. Nature 421 (6921): 314. doi:10.1038/421314b. PMID 12540875.
  • Dawkins, R. (2003). ”The evolution of evolvability”. On Growth, Form and Computers. London: Academic Press.
  • Dawkins, R. (2004). ”Viruses of the mind”. In Warburton, N.. Philosophy: Basic Readings. New York: Routledge. ISBN 0-41-533798-4.
  • Dawkins, R. (June 2004). ”Extended phenotype – But not too extended. A reply to Laland, Turner and Jablonka”. Biology & Physiology: 377–396. doi:10.1023/B:BIPH.0000036180.14904.96.


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