Richard Dawkins is an evolutionary biologist and the former Charles Simonyi Professor For The 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. Dawkins is known as an outspoken atheist. He is well known for his criticism of creationism and intell... Read More
Richard Dawkins, in full Clinton Richard Dawkins, is a British evolutionary biologist, ethologist, and popular-science writer who emphasized the gene as the driving force of evolution and generated significant controversy with his enthusiastic advocacy of atheism. In 1976 he published his first book, The Selfish Gene, in which he tried to rectify what he maintained was a widespread misunderstan... Read More