The following list of publications by Richard Dawkins is a chronological list of papers, articles, essays and books published by
British ethologist
Ethology is the scientific study of animal behaviour, usually with a focus on behaviour under natural conditions, and viewing behaviour as an evolutionarily adaptive trait. Behaviourism as a term also describes the scientific and objective ...
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evolutionary biologist
Evolutionary biology is the subfield of biology that studies the evolutionary processes (natural selection, common descent, speciation) that produced the diversity of life on Earth. It is also defined as the study of the history of life fo ...
Richard Dawkins
Richard Dawkins (born 26 March 1941) is a British evolutionary biologist and author. 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. An at ...
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He has also written many book reviews and newspaper articles which are not listed on this page.
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Forewords
Richard Dawkins has also written
foreword
A foreword is a (usually short) piece of writing, sometimes placed at the beginning of a book or other piece of literature. Typically written by someone other than the primary author of the work, it often tells of some interaction between the ...
s to books, including:
[Some of the forewords written by ]Richard Dawkins
Richard Dawkins (born 26 March 1941) is a British evolutionary biologist and author. 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. An at ...
are reprinted in '' The Devil's Chaplain: Selected Essays'', Phoenix, 2003 ().
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Red Strangers'' by
Elspeth Huxley
Elspeth Joscelin Huxley CBE (née Grant; 23 July 1907 – 10 January 1997) was an English writer, journalist, broadcaster, magistrate, environmentalist, farmer, and government adviser. She wrote over 40 books, including her best-known lyri ...
, republished by Penguin Books, 1999.
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The Meme Machine'' by
Susan Blackmore, Oxford University Press, 1999.
* ''Pyramids of Life'' by Harvey Croze and John Reader, Harvill Press, 2000.
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Snake Oil and Other Preoccupations
John Diamond (10 May 1953 – 2 March 2001) was an English journalist and broadcaster. In 1997 he was diagnosed with throat cancer, a subject he wrote about in his weekly column at ''The Times'', as well as in two books (one published posthumo ...
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John Diamond, Vintage, 2001.
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The Lion Children
''The Lion Children'' is a story about a group of children who are taken to Botswana in 1995 by their mother Kate Nicholls to study the behaviour of lions.
The book was praised by British biologist Richard Dawkins who wrote a forewordRichard D ...
'', by Angus, Maisie and Travers McNeice, Orion Books, 2001.
* A new student edition of
Charles Darwin
Charles Robert Darwin ( ; 12 February 1809 – 19 April 1882) was an English natural history#Before 1900, naturalist, geologist, and biologist, widely known for his contributions to evolutionary biology. His proposition that all speci ...
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The Descent of Man
''The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex'' is a book by English naturalist Charles Darwin, first published in 1871, which applies evolutionary theory to human evolution, and details his theory of sexual selection, a form of b ...
'', Gibson Square Books, 2002.
* ''A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence'' by
Jeff Hawkins
Jeffrey Hawkins is a co-founder of the companies Palm Computing, where he co-created the PalmPilot, and Handspring, where he was one of the creators of the Treo.Jeff Hawkins, ''On Intelligence'', p.28
He subsequently turned to work on neurosc ...
, Basic Books, 2021
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