Richard Dawkins er den første som innehar Oxfords nylig opprettede Charles Simonyi professorat til offentlig forståelse av vitenskap. Han er født i Nairobi av britiske foreldre og fikk sin utdannelse ved universitetet i Oxford, hvor han tok doktorgraden under ledelse av Nobelprisvinneren og adferdsforskeren Niko Tinbergen.
Fra 1967 til 1969 var han vitenskapelig assistent ved University of California i Berkeley, så vendte han tilbake til Oxford som universitetslektor (senere lektorat) og Fellow of New College før han tiltrådte sin nåværende stilling i 1995.
Richard Dawkins’ bøker, som er blitt bestselgere, har spilt en betydelig rolle i den nye blomstringstiden for vitenskapelige bøker utgitt for et alminnelig publikum. Det egoistiske genet (1976; annen utgave 1989) ble fulgt av The Extended Phenotype (1982), The Blind Watchmaker (1986), River Out of Eden (1995), Climbing Mount Improbable (1996) og Unweaving the Rainbow (1998). Han har vunnet mange litterære og vitenskapelige priser, deriblant Royal Society of Literature Award i 1987, Michael Faraday Award of the Royal Society i 1990, Nakayama Prize for Human Science i 1994 og International Cosmos Prize i 1997.
«Richard Dawkins, en av de mest briljante i den fremvoksende generasjonen av biologer, avslører vennlig og fagmessig noen av de mest populære illusjonene i sosialbiologi angående evolusjonen av altruisme, men det betyr ikke under noen omstendigheter at denne boken må betraktes som en avslørende type bok; den er tvert imot en ytterst dyktig omformulering av de sentrale problemene i sosialbiologi uttrykt ved den genetiske teorien om naturlig utvalg. Utover dette er den lærd, vittig og meget godt skrevet… oppkvikkende godt.»
Sir Peter Medawar, Spectator
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