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The following list of publications by Richard Dawkins is a chronological list of papers, articles, essays and books published by British ethologist and evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins. He has also written many book reviews and newspaper articles which are not listed on this page.
Richard Dawkins (born 26 March 1941) [3] is a British evolutionary biologist, zoologist, science communicator, and author. [4] 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.
Pages in category "Books by Richard Dawkins" The following 16 pages are in this category, out of 16 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
The God Delusion is a 2006 book by British evolutionary biologist and ethologist Richard Dawkins.In The God Delusion, Dawkins contends that a supernatural creator, God, almost certainly does not exist, and that belief in a personal god qualifies as a delusion, which he defines as a persistent false belief held in the face of strong contradictory evidence.
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.
The Magic of Reality: How We Know What's Really True is a 2011 book by the British biologist Richard Dawkins, with illustrations by Dave McKean. The book was released on 15 September 2011 in the United Kingdom, and on 4 October 2011 in the United States. [1] [2] [3] It is a graphic science book aimed primarily at children and young adults.
[7] [8] Other authors have written similar books recently, such as Jerry Coyne's Why Evolution is True which Dawkins highly recommends. [9] The book is dedicated to Dawkins' technical assistant and web designer Josh Timonen (left). Dawkins's literary agent John Brockman promoted the book to publishers under the working title Only a Theory.
Flights of Fancy talks about almost every aspect of flying–all the different ways of defying gravity–in imagination and in technology, in humans and in animals. It ranges over many instances of flight including the Wright brothers, Greek mythology, extinct and living birds, helicopters, insects, bats, and flying squirrels.