Secular Global Institute

Born in Nairobi, Kenya, in 1941, Professor Richard Dawkins is one of the world’s leading scientific intellectuals, specialising in evolutionary biology. After undertaking his doctorate under the instruction of Nobel-prize winning ethologist Niko Tinbergen at Berkeley University of California, in 1967 he was appointed Assistant Professor of Zoology at Berkeley Dawkins returned to Oxford University, where he gained his degree, before becoming a fellow at New College, Oxford in 1970. Professor Dawkins has written numerous successful titles. His first book, The Selfish Gene, published in 1976, introduced the world to the term "meme" and has thus been continuously referenced throughout the last few decades. Some of his other books include: The Extended Phenotype (1982), River Our of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life (1995), Climbing Mount Improbable (1996), Unweaving the Rainbow (1997), A Devil’s Chaplain (2003), The Ancestor’s Tale (2004), The God Delusion (2006), and most recently An Appetite for Wonder: The Makings of a Scientist (2013).