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The God Delusion caused a sensation when it was published in 2006. Within weeks it became the most hotly debated topic, with Dawkins himself brande...

Charles Darwin, whose 1859 masterpiece 'On the Origin of Species' shook society to its core, would surely have raised an incredulous eyebrow at th...

Few scientific theories have been as influential or controversial in the past few centuries as Darwin's thoughts on natural selection; even now, la...

Born to parents who were enthusiastic naturalists, and linked through his wider family to a clutch of accomplished scientists, Richard Dawkins was ...

Magic takes many forms. The ancient Egyptians explained the night by suggesting that the goddess Nut swallowed the sun. The Vikings believed a rain...

The God Delusion caused a sensation when it was published in 2006. Within weeks it became the most hotly debated topic, with Dawkins himself brande...

A preeminent scientist -- and the world's most prominent atheist -- asserts the irrationality of belief in God and the grievous harm religion has i...

Richard Dawkins, the eminent zoologist, achieved international acclaim with his best selling The Selfish Gene (1976). Classics of Popular science w...

Goodreads Rating: 3.98 Publisher: Weidenfeld and Nicolson About: In River Out of Eden, Richard Dawkins explains how evolution works. He gives a co...

The Selfish Gene: 30th Anniversary Edition—with a new Introduction by the AuthorInheriting the mantle of revolutionary biologist from Darwin, Watso...

The central argument of A Universe from Nothing stems from three discoveries about the nature of the universe: First, that the total energy of our ...

Goodreads Rating: 4.8 Publisher: Viking About: The human eye is so complex and works so precisely that surely, one might believe, its current shape...

The God Delusion caused a sensation when it was published in 2006. Within weeks it became the most hotly debated topic, with Dawkins himself brande...

Did Newton "unweave the rainbow" by reducing it to its prismatic colors, as Keats contended? Did he, in other words, diminish beauty? Far from it, ...

From the author of The God Delusion, Richard Dawkins' The Blind Watchmaker has been acclaimed as the most influential work on evolution in the last...

In this hugely entertaining sequel to the New York Times bestselling memoir An Appetite for Wonder, Richard Dawkins delves deeply into his intellec...

The Selfish Gene is a classic exposition of evolutionary thought. In it Professor Dawkins articulates a gene's eye view of evolution - a view givin...

At the dawn of the new atheist movement, the thinkers who became known as “the four horsemen,” the heralds of religion's unraveling—Christopher Hit...

Charles Darwin, whose 1859 masterpiece 'On the Origin of Species' shook society to its core, would surely have raised an incredulous eyebrow at th...

Richard Dawkins is one of the finest minds in science, and in this superb collection of essays and letters, he demonstrates the depth of his knowle...

The human eye is so complex and works so precisely that surely, one might believe, its current shape and function must be the product of design. Ho...

In Dawkins' view, human beings are vehicles of evolution--gene carriers whose primary purpose is propagation of their own genes. In this new book, ...