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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
40
Citations
64040
World Ranking
5151
National Ranking
868

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2001 - Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom

Overview

Richard Dawkins is affiliated with the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. Their scholarly contributions include work published in book form, with a known publication through Yale University Press.

Their notable book publication is The Genetic Book of the Dead, released in 2024 and cited three times.

Award recognition includes being named a Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom, in 2001.

Best Publications

  • The Selfish Gene

    Richard Dawkins

  • The blind watchmaker : why the evidence of evolution reveals a universe without design

    Richard Dawkins

  • Animal signals: information or manipulation?

    R. Dawkins;J. R. Krebs

  • River Out of Eden : A Darwinian View of Life

    Richard Dawkins

  • Climbing Mount Improbable

    Richard Dawkins

  • The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Life

    Richard Dawkins;Yan Wong

  • Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder

    Richard Dawkins

  • Oxford Surveys in Evolutionary Biology

    Mark Ridley;Richard Dawkins;Paul H. Harvey;Linda Partridge

  • The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution

    Richard Dawkins

  • A universe from nothing : why there is something rather than nothing

    Lawrence Maxwell Krauss;Richard Dawkins

  • Parental investment, mate desertion and a fallacy.

    R. Dawkins;T. R. Carlisle

  • A Devil's Chaplain: Reflections on Hope, Lies, Science, and Love

    Richard Dawkins

  • Twelve Misunderstandings of Kin Selection

    Richard Dawkins

  • Replicator selection and the extended phenotype.

    Richard Dawkins

  • The Selfish Gene

    Noel T. Boaz;Richard Dawkins

  • Extended Phenotype - But Not Too Extended. A Reply to Laland, Turner and Jablonka

    Richard Dawkins

  • Evolutionarily stable nesting strategy in a digger wasp.

    H J Brockmann;A Grafen;R Dawkins

  • The hunting behaviour of individual great tits in relation to spatial variations in their food density

    James N.M. Smith;Richard Dawkins

  • River Out of Eden

    Richard Dawkins

  • The ancestor's tale : a pilgrimage to the dawn of evolution

    Richard Dawkins;Yan Wong

  • The selfish gene, 30th anniversary ed.

    Richard Dawkins

  • Do digger wasps commit the concorde fallacy

    Richard Dawkins;H. Jane Brockmann

Frequent Co-Authors

Daniel C. Dennett
Daniel C. Dennett Tufts University
H. Jane Brockmann
H. Jane Brockmann University of Florida
Jerry A. Coyne
Jerry A. Coyne University of Chicago
Stephen Jay Gould
Stephen Jay Gould Harvard University
Robin Holliday
Robin Holliday Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Linda Partridge
Linda Partridge Max Planck Society
Laurence D. Hurst
Laurence D. Hurst University of Bath
Michel Treisman
Michel Treisman University of Oxford
Dan Sperber
Dan Sperber Central European University
Colin Blakemore
Colin Blakemore City University of Hong Kong

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