Richard Dawkins: How a Scientist Changed the Way We Think

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Richard Dawkins: How a Scientist Changed the Way We Think is a compilation of 25 essays written in recognition of the life and work of Richard Dawkins. It was published in 2006 to coincide roughly with the 30th anniversary of the publication of The Selfish Gene. A wide range of topics are covered from many fields including evolutionary biology, philosophy, and psychology. Space is also given to writers who are not in full agreement with Dawkins. The book is edited by Alan Grafen and Mark Ridley.

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• Biology
  • Andrew F. Read – Ballooning Parrots and Semi-Lunar Germs
  • Helena Cronin – The Battle of the Sexes Revisited
  • John Krebs – Richard Dawkins: Intellectual Plumber—and More
  • Michael Hansell – What is a Puma?
• The Selfish Gene
  • Marian Stamp Dawkins – Living with The Selfish Gene
  • David Haig – The Gene Meme
  • Alan Grafen – The Intellectual Contribution of The Selfish Gene to Evolutionary Theory
  • Ullica Segerstråle – An Eye on the Core: Dawkins and Sociobiology
• Logic
  • Daniel C. Dennett – The Selfish Gene as a Philosophical Essay
  • Seth Bullock – The Invention of an Algorithmic Biology
  • David Deutsch – Selfish Genes and Information Flow
  • Steven Pinker – Deep Commonalities between Life and Mind
• Antiphonal voices
  • Michael Ruse – Richard Dawkins and the Problem of Progress
  • Patrick Bateson – The Nest's Tale: Affectionate Disagreements with Richard Dawkins
  • Robert Aunger – What's the Matter with Memes?
• Humans
  • Martin Daly & Margo Wilson – Selfish Genes and Family Relations
  • Randolph M. Nesse – Why a Lot of People with Selfish Genes Are Pretty Nice Except for their Hatred of The Selfish Gene
  • Kim Sterelny – The Perverse Primate
• Controversy
  • Michael Shermer – The Skeptic's Chaplain: Richard Dawkins as a Fountainhead of Skepticism
  • Richard Harries – A Fellow Humanist
  • A. C. Grayling – Dawkins and the Virus of Faith
  • Marek Kohn – To Rise Above
  • David P. Barash – What the Whale Wondered: Evolution, Existentialism, and the Search for "Meaning"
• Writing
  • Matt Ridley – Richard Dawkins and the Golden Pen
  • Philip Pullman – Every Indication of Inadvertent Solicitude

Richard Dawkins

The Selfish Gene • The Extended Phenotype • The Blind Watchmaker • River out of Eden • Climbing Mount Improbable • Unweaving the Rainbow • A Devil's Chaplain • The Ancestor's Tale • The Root of All Evil? • How a Scientist Changed the Way We Think • The God Delusion • The Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science See also: Evolution • Gene-centric view of evolution • Memetics • Atheism • Humanism • W. D. Hamilton • Lalla Ward • Richard Dawkins in popular culture