With the publication of the international bestsellerThe Selfish Genesome thirty years ago, Richard Dawkins powerfully captured a newly emerging way of und...

With the publication of the international bestsellerThe Selfish Genesome thirty years ago, Richard Dawkins powerfully captured a newly emerging way of und...

Here, for the first time is an intimate look into the childhood and intellectual development of the world’s most famous atheist and evolutionary biologist...

Richard Dawkins is a prominent British biologist, author of the theory of memes. His brilliant books played a huge role in reviving interest in popular scien...

In this volume, excerpted from Charles Darwin: A Celebration of His Life and Legacy (NewSouth Books, 2013), public educator, author, and evolutionary biol...

Richard Dawkins's essays are an enthusiastic testament to the power of rigorous, scientific examination, and they span many different corners of his perso...

People commonly view evolution as a process of competition between individuals—known as “survival of the fittest”—with the individual representing the “un...

The human eye is so complex and works so precisely that surely, one might believe, its current shape and function must be the product of design. How could...

If you suddenly meet a person on the street who has never heard anything about Richard Dawkins, you can safely recommend to this eccentric “The River Coming ...

The great scientists and intellectuals of our time, Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, Sam Harris and Daniel Dennett, once met over cocktails to honestly...

Magic takes many forms. The ancient Egyptians explained the night by suggesting that the goddess Nut swallowed the sun. The Vikings believed a rainbow was...