The Selfish Gene

Richard Dawkins

born 1941 · English ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author

• Professor at Berkeley
• Professor at Oxford
• Fellow of the Royal Society

Profession

Biologist, Geneticist, Professor

Worked at

Berkeley, Oxford, Northeastern University London

Studied at

Oxford

Studied under

Nikolaas Tinbergen

Prizes

Fellow of the Royal Society (2001), Heinemann Award (1986), Silver Medal of the Zoological Society of London (1989), Michael Faraday Prize (1990), Humanist of the Year (1996), Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature (1997), International Cosmos Prize (1997), Tinbergen Lecture (2000), Emperor Has No Clothes Award (2001), Kistler Prize (2001), Medal of Representation of the President of the Italian Republic (2001), Shakespeare Prize (2005), Lewis Thomas Prize (2006), Nierenberg Prize (2009), Fellow of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry

Coined the word 'meme' in The Selfish Gene.

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