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Clinton Richard Dawkins, FRS, FRSL (born 26 March 1941) is a British ethologist, zoologist, Neo-Darwinian evolutionary biologist and theorist and a popular science author.

Dawkins came to prominence with his 1976 book The Selfish Gene, which popularised the gene-centred view of evolution and introduced the term meme. In 1982, he further developed the gene-centred view with his book The Extended Phenotype, emphasizing that the phenotypic effects of genes are not necessarily limited to an organism’s body, but can stretch via biochemistry and behaviour far into the web of life and the entire environment. He is well known as a presenter of the case for rationalism and scientific thinking.

Dawkins is a prominent critic of religion, creationism and a wide variety of pseudoscience. In his 1986 book The Blind Watchmaker, he argued against the watchmaker analogy, an argument for the existence of a supernatural creator based upon the complexity of living organisms. Instead, he described evolutionary processes as analogous to a blind watchmaker. In his 2006 book The God Delusion, Dawkins contends that a supernatural creator almost certainly does not exist, writing that such beliefs, based on faith rather than on evidence, qualify as a delusion. He was a co-founder of the Out Campaign, as a means of advancing atheism and freethought.

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