Richard Dawkins

Gud – en vrangforestilling er en religionskritisk bok av den britiske etologen og evolusjonsteoretikeren Richard Dawkins. Den engelskspråklige utgaven har solgt over én og en halv million eksemplarer og blitt oversatt til 31 andre språk. I denne boken argumenterer Dawkins for at troen på en personlig, overnaturlig …

Det egoistiske genet er den første og mest kjente boken til Richard Dawkins. Bokens første utgave kom i 1976; en utvidet, men ellers uendret utgave kom i 1989. Den norske oversettelsen ble utgitt i 2002. Boken presenterer forfatterens egoistiske-gen-teori, som i korte trekk går ut på at det er enklere å forklare …

The Blind Watchmaker er en bok fra 1986 skrevet av den kjente britiske biologen Richard Dawkins. Boken utgjør en argumentasjon mot kreasjonisme, spesielt argumenter om en plan i naturen. Den bygger videre på og forsvarer argumentasjonen som Dawkins førte i sin tidligere bok The Selfish Gene, som populariserte …

With unparalleled wit, clarity, and intelligence, Richard Dawkins, one of the world's most renowned evolutionary biologists, has introduced countless readers to the wonders of science in works such as The Selfish Gene. Now, in The Ancestor's Tale, Dawkins offers a masterwork: an exhilarating reverse tour through …

The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution is a 2009 book by British biologist Richard Dawkins, which was released on 3 September 2009 in the UK and on 22 September 2009 in the US It sets out the evidence for biological evolution, and is Dawkins's 10th book, following his best-selling critique of religion …

Unweaving the Rainbow is a 1998 book by Richard Dawkins, discussing the relationship between science and the arts from the perspective of a scientist. Dawkins addresses the misperception that science and art are at odds. Driven by the responses to his books The Selfish Gene and The Blind Watchmaker wherein readers …

River Out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life is a 1995 popular science book by Richard Dawkins. The book is about Darwinian evolution and includes summaries of the topics covered in his earlier books, The Selfish Gene, The Extended Phenotype and The Blind Watchmaker. It is part of the Science Masters series and is …

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 …

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, …

The Extended Phenotype is a 1982 book by Richard Dawkins in which he introduced a biological concept of the same name. The main idea is that phenotype should not be limited to biological processes such as protein biosynthesis or tissue growth, but extended to include all effects that a gene has on its environment, …