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Richard Dawkins Tribute Page
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<h1 class='text-center'>Clinton Richard Dawkins</h1>
<h2 class='text-center'>English ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author</h2>
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<div class='photo-text text-center'>The Four Horsemen of Atheism: from left to right, Christopher Hitchens, Daniel C. Dennett, Richard Dawkins and Sam Harris</div>
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<h3 class='text-center'>Richard Dawkins in media:</h3>
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<p class='list-header list-header-first text-center'>Selected publications</p>
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<li>The Selfish Gene. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 1976.</li>
<li>The Extended Phenotype. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 1982.</li>
<li>The Blind Watchmaker. New York: W. W. Norton & Company. 1986.</li>
<li>River Out of Eden. New York: Basic Books. 1995.</li>
<li>Climbing Mount Improbable. New York: W. W. Norton & Company. 1996.</li>
<li>Unweaving the Rainbow. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. 1998.</li>
<li>A Devil's Chaplain. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. 2003.</li>
<li>The Ancestor's Tale. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. 2004.</li>
<li>The God Delusion. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. 2006.</li>
<li>The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution. Free Press (United States), Transworld (United Kingdom and Commonwealth). 2009.</li>
<li>The Magic of Reality: How We Know What's Really True. Free Press (United States), Bantam Press (United Kingdom). 2011.</li>
<li>An Appetite for Wonder: The Making of a Scientist. Ecco Press (United Kingdom and United States). 2013.</li>
<li>Brief Candle in the Dark: My Life in Science. Ecco Press (United States and United Kingdom). 2015.</li>
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<p class='list-header text-center'>Documentary films</p>
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<li>Nice Guys Finish First (1986)</li>
<li>The Blind Watchmaker (1987)</li>
<li>Growing Up in the Universe (1991)</li>
<li>Break the Science Barrier (1996)</li>
<li>The Atheism Tapes (2004)</li>
<li>The Big Question (2005) - Part 3 of the TV series, titled "Why Are We Here?"</li>
<li>The Root of All Evil? (2006)</li>
<li>The Enemies of Reason (2007)</li>
<li>The Genius of Charles Darwin (2008)</li>
<li>The Purpose of Purpose (2009) – Lecture tour among American universities</li>
<li>Faith School Menace? (2010)</li>
<li>Beautiful Minds (April 2012) – BBC4 documentary</li>
<li>Sex, Death and the Meaning of Life (2012)</li>
<li>The Unbelievers (2013)</li>
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<p class='list-header text-center'>Other appearances</p>
<p class='media-text'>Dawkins has made many television appearances on news shows providing his political and especially his opinions as an atheist. He has been interviewed on the radio, often as part of his book tours. He has debated many religious figures. He has made many university speaking appearances, again often in coordination with his book tours. As of 2016, he has over 60 credits in the Internet Movie Database where he appeared as himself.</p>
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<li>Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed (2008) – as himself, presented as a leading scientific opponent of intelligent design in a film that contends that the mainstream science establishment suppresses academics who believe they see evidence of intelligent design in nature and who criticise evidence supporting Darwinian evolution</li>
<li>Doctor Who: "The Stolen Earth" (2008) – as himself</li>
<li>The Simpsons: "Black Eyed, Please" (2013) – appears in Ned Flanders' dream of Hell; provided voice as a demon version of himself</li>
<li>Endless Forms Most Beautiful (2015) - by Nightwish: Finnish symphonic metal band Nightwish had Dawkins as a guest star on their 2015 album</li>
<li>When the Professor Got Stuck in the Snow (2015) - A fictional Richard Dawkins is the central character in Dan Rhodes' 2014 parody novel</li>
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<blockquote class='text-center'>Richard Dawkins has, through his writings, helped us understand that the universe is far more beautiful and awe-inspiring than any religion has imagined.</blockquote>
<p class='text text-right cite'>Rohan David Pethiyagoda - one of Sri Lanka's leading naturalist and a taxonomist</p>
<p class='wiki-text text-center'>If you want to know more about this man, visit <a href'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Dawkins'>Wikipedia page about him</a>.</p>
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<p class='text-center'>Written and coded by <a href='https://www.freecodecamp.com/obulygin'>Oleg Bulygin</a>.</p>
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