Richard Dawkins

AKA Clinton Richard Dawkins

Born: 26-Mar-1941

Birthplace: Nairobi, Kenya



Gender: Male

Religion: Atheist

Race or Ethnicity: White

Sexual orientation: Straight

Occupation: Biologist, Philosopher, Zoologist

Nationality: England

Executive summary: Zoologist and evolutionary biologist

Zoologist, evolutionary biologist. Studied under Nikolaas Tinbergen, and was introduced to his wife by Douglas Adams. At age 9 Dawkins discovered the Argument from Design as proof of God and became deeply religious. At age 16 he decided Darwinism was a better explanation for design and converted to atheism.

Father: Clinton John Dawkins (b. 1915, d. 2010)

Mother: Jean Mary Vyvyan Ladner (m. 1939)

Wife: Marian Stamp (m. 19-Aug-1967, div. 1984)

Wife: Eve Barham (m. 1-Jun-1984, div., d.)

Daughter: Juliet

Wife: Lalla Ward (actress, m. 1992)



High School: Oundle School, Peterborough, England (1959)

University: BA Zoology, Balliol College, Oxford University (1962)

University: PhD, Oxford University

Professor: University of California at Berkeley (1967-69)

Professor: Oxford University



British Humanist Association

Committee for Skeptical Inquiry Fellow

CSICOP Fellow

International Academy of Humanism Laureate

National Secular Society Honorary Associate

Royal Society 2001

Secular Coalition for America Advisory Board

Secular Student Alliance Academic Advisory Board

World Technology Network

Faraday Prize 1990

Humanist of the Year 1996

The Third Culture

Converted to Atheism formerly Anglican



FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR

The Unbelievers (29-Apr-2013) · Himself

The Nature of Existence (Apr-2009)

Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed (18-Apr-2008) · Himself

Root of All Evil? (9-Jan-2006) · Himself

The God Who Wasn't There (21-May-2005) · Himself



Official Website:

http://www.richarddawkins.net/

Author of books:

The Selfish Gene ( 1976 )

The Extended Phenotype ( 1982 )

The Blind Watchmaker ( 1986 )

River out of Eden ( 1995 )

Climbing Mount Improbable ( 1996 )

Unweaving the Rainbow ( 1998 )

A Devil's Chaplain ( 2003 )

The Ancestor's Tale ( 2004 )

The God Delusion ( 2006 )







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