5/30/2023 0 Comments The selfish gene![]() ![]() Dawkins wrote The Blind Watchmaker in 1986, arguing against the watchmaker analogy, an argument for the existence of a supernatural creator based upon the complexity of living organisms. ![]() This book and The Selfish Gene also introduced the word meme.ĭawkins is well known for his criticism of creationism and intelligent design as well as for being a vocal atheist. With his book The Extended Phenotype (1982), he introduced into evolutionary biology the influential concept that the phenotypic effects of a gene are not necessarily limited to an organism's body, but can stretch far into the environment an example is when a beaver builds a dam. In The Selfish Gene Dawkins says that life evolves by the differential survival of replicating entities. Dawkins has won several academic and writing awards. His 1976 book The Selfish Gene popularised the gene-centred view of evolution. He is an emeritus fellow of New College, Oxford, and was Professor for Public Understanding of Science in the University of Oxford from 1995 to 2008. Richard Dawkins FRS FRSL (born 26 March 1941) is a British evolutionary biologist and author. ![]()
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