Richard Dawkins
evolutionary biologist
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Richard Dawkins Richard Dawkins is a British evolutionary biologist and ethologist who introduced the term meme for a unit of cultural transmission. He is an emeritus fellow of New College, Oxford. Dawkins is the author of The Selfish Gene, The Blind Watchmaker, The God Delusion, and The Greatest Show on Earth.
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Richard Dawkins is a British evolutionary biologist, zoologist, science communicator and author. He is an emeritus fellow of New College, Oxford. In 1995 he was named the first Simonyi Professor for the Public Understanding of Science, a position he held until 2008, and is on the advisory board of the University of Austin. Dawkins has won several academic and writing awards, among them the 2005 Shakespeare Prize and the 2006 Lewis Thomas Prize. Presenting the latter, Paul Nurse said "In eloquent, evocative prose, Richard Dawkins conveys the certainty that, rather than diminishing the myriad beauties of the universe and extinguishing wonderment at its mysteries, science reveals truths that are yet more awe-inspiring than the mysteries they solve."
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