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1 day ago · So, how have we come to understand the core principles of evolution, if not straight from the horse’s mouth? By watching television documentaries and online lectures, taking school trips to museum exhibits, and reading popular and engaging articles and books by renowned authors such as Richard Dawkins, Jerry Coyne, and Stephen Jay Gould.
2 days ago · It may not be a popular idea, and certainly complicates an already carefully laid out narrative. It reminds me of an exchange between Lynn Margulis, the microbiologist who pioneered the theory of symbiotic evolution, and Richard Dawkins, who took exception to the theory’s contradictions of Neo-Darwinian theory.
4 days ago · Richard Dawkins argues that speciesism is an example of the "discontinuous mind". Richard Dawkins , the evolutionary biologist, wrote against speciesism in The Blind Watchmaker (1986), The Great Ape Project (1993), and The God Delusion (2006), elucidating the connection with evolutionary theory .
3 days ago · Richard Dawkins calls himself a 'secular Christian', has sense of nostalgia for church traditions. The outspoken atheist and evolutionary biologist was presenting the first volume of his memoirs, An Appetite For Wonder, at the festival over the weekend. According to The Telegraph, he made it clear he felt nothing for the spiritual teachings of ...
5 days ago · Originally the word meme was coined by Richard Dawkins in the sense of “ a unit of cultural transmission, or a unit of imitation ” 18 18 18 RICHARD DAWKINS, The selfish gene, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989, p. 192 where there is also a description of the function which meme play in diffusion of cultural ideas or patterns “ Just as ...
3 days ago · 20th September, 2012 18h18. In April 2013 delegates at BSAVA Congress will get the chance to see one of the biggest names in science when Richard Dawkins picks up the baton from the likes of Lord Robert Winston and Susan Greenfield as the special speaker for the BSAVA lecture.