Biography Richard Dawkins
1941, Nairobi, Kenya. He moved to England at the age of eight and was educated in Oxford. After a few years at the University of California at Berkeley he returned to Oxford, where he is now Reader in Zoology and a Fellow of New College. Richard Dawkins broke new ground in the theory of evolution with his book The Selfish Gene, published in 1976 [second edtion 1989]. He has continued to promote the Darwinian cause with his other best-selling books, The Extended Phenotype and The Blind Watchmaker, and in his forthcoming book based on his Royal Institution Christmas Lectures.