Fifty years ago, Richard Dawkins shared an irresistible scientific metaphor with the world that modernised and democratised ...

The concept of a “meme” was introduced by evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins in his 1976 book “The Selfish Gene,” as a unit of cultural transmission. Nearly 50 years after the fact, Dawkins’ ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In this wide-ranging conversation with Reason's Nick Gillespie, recorded live in September 2024 in Milwaukee as part of Dawkins' ...

Richard Dawkins has reflected on coining the term “meme”. The word was first shared by the scientist in his 1972 bestselling book The Selfish Gene, where it referred to the self-replication of genes ...

Richard Dawkins is an evolutionary biologist based in the U.K. and bestselling author of The Selfish Gene, The God Delusion and The Blind Watchmaker, among many other books. He is founder of the ...

Few living thinkers have been as influential—or controversial—as Richard Dawkins. An evolutionary biologist by training, Dawkins rose to prominence with his 1976 book The Selfish Gene, which ...

It will be the same principle, the Darwinian principle of the nonrandom survival of randomly varying, potentially immortal replicators. This interview has been condensed and edited for style and ...