Richard Dawkins

The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing is an anthology of scientific writings, arranged and introduced by Richard Dawkins of the University of Oxford. Published first in March 2008, it contains 83 writings on many topics from a diverse variety of authors, which range in length from one to eight pages. All …

Rozšířený fenotyp je koncept Richarda Dawkinse, který představil ve své knize z roku 1982 s názvem „The Extended Phenotype“. Rozšířený fenotyp lze shrnout jako veškerý vliv genů na okolní prostředí, tedy i jiné organizmy. Tradičně se genům přisuzovala pouze schopnost ovlivňovat fenotyp vlastního nositele skrze …

A Devil's Chaplain, subtitled Reflections on Hope, Lies, Science, and Love is a 2003 book of selected essays and other writings by Richard Dawkins. Published five years after his previous book Unweaving the Rainbow, it contains 32 essays covering subjects including pseudoscience, genetic determinism, memetics, …

How do species evolve? Richard Dawkins, one of the world's most eminent zoologists, likens the process to scaling a huge, Himalaya-size peak, the Mount Improbable of his title. An alpinist does not leap from sea level to the summit; neither does a species utterly change forms overnight, but instead follows a course of …