Born 26 Mar 1941.

English evolutionary biologist and science writer known for his outspoken, but intellectual opinions as an atheist on creationism.

His books, beginning with The Blind Watchmaker (1976) have been international best-sellers. In The Selfish Gene (1989), he reformulated the theory of natural selection, though he credits Charles Darwin as being the“ founder of really everything that I do.”

In lectures and media appearances, he articulates the lamentable ignorance of the creationists' views in their denial of real-world proofs.

Dawkins traces the evidence of evolution through the chemical molecular evidence of genes, which complements the fossil record.

In The Selfish Gene, he coined the term meme as the unit of cultural transmission, meaning the unit of imitation and replication of a cultural item in a manner analogous to the biological transmission of genes.