Biographie
Richard
Dawkins: biography and background
John Catalano - catalj@spacelab.net
- His father
moved to Kenya from England during the Second World War to
join the Allied Forces
- Richard
Dawkins was born in Nairobi in 1941
- His family
returned to England in 1949
- Studied at
Oxford University and graduated in 1962
- Remained at
Oxford to work for his doctorate with ethologist Niko
Tinbergen
- Assistant
Professor of Zoology at the University of California at
Berkeley 1967-1969
- Lecturer
in Zoology
at Oxford University and a
Fellow of New College from
- 1970
- Published
his first book, The Selfish Gene in 1976
- Holder
of the newly endowed Charles
Simonyi Chair of Public Understanding of Science 1995
- Elected a
Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1997
- Richard
Dawkins is married to actress and artist Lalla
Ward. She has illustrated two of
his books, River
out of Eden, and
Climbing
Mount Improbable.
http://www.world-of-dawkins.com/bio.htm
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