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| years_active = 1967–present | employer = | organization = Fellow of the Royal Society Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature | known_for = | notable_works = | influences = Charles Darwin, Ronald Fisher,〔Dawkins, R. (2010). WHO IS THE GREATEST BIOLOGIST SINCE DARWIN? WHY? (Edge ) "Who is the greatest biologist since Darwin? That's far less obvious, and no doubt many good candidates will be put forward. My own nominee would be Ronald Fisher. Not only was he the most original and constructive of the architects of the neo-Darwinian synthesis. Fisher also was the father of modern statistics and experimental design. He therefore could be said to have provided researchers in biology and medicine with their most important research tools, as well as with the modern version of biology's central theorem."〕 George C. Williams, W. D. Hamilton, Daniel Dennett, Bertrand Russell, Nikolaas Tinbergen, John Maynard Smith, Robert Trivers |spouse = Eve Barham (m. 1984, div. ?) | children = Juliet Emma | awards = | signature = Richard Dawkins signature.svg | website = | module = }} Clinton Richard Dawkins (born 26 March 1941) is a British ethologist, evolutionary biologist,〔, (Extract of page 228 )〕 and writer. He is an emeritus fellow of New College, Oxford,〔(Emeritus, Honorary and Wykeham Fellows ) of New College, Oxford〕 and was the University of Oxford's Professor for Public Understanding of Science from 1995 until 2008.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Previous holders of The Simonyi Professorship )〕 Dawkins is a noted atheist, a patron of the British Humanist Association, and a supporter of the Brights movement,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Richard Dawkins on militant atheism )〕 and is well known for his criticism of creationism and intelligent design. In his 1986 book ''The Blind Watchmaker'', he argues against the watchmaker analogy, an argument for the existence of a supernatural creator based upon the complexity of living organisms. Instead, he describes evolutionary processes as analogous to a ''blind'' watchmaker. Dawkins first came to prominence with his 1976 book ''The Selfish Gene'', which popularised the gene-centred view of evolution and introduced the term ''meme''. In 1982, he introduced into evolutionary biology the influential concept that the phenotypic effects of a gene are not necessarily limited to an organism's body, but can stretch far into the environment, including the bodies of other organisms. This concept is presented in his book ''The Extended Phenotype''. He has since written several popular science books, and makes regular television and radio appearances, predominantly discussing these topics. In his 2006 book ''The God Delusion'', Dawkins contends that a supernatural creator almost certainly does not exist and that religious faith is a delusion—"a fixed false belief". As of January 2010, the English-language version had sold more than two million copies and had been translated into 31 languages.〔 * 〕 Dawkins founded the Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science to promote the teaching of evolution and to counteract those who advocate classroom programmes against evolution. In 2014 he joined the global awareness movement Asteroid Day as a "100x Signatory". == Background == 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Richard Dawkins」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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