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He was born in the capital and largest city of Kenya, Nairobi. His father was an agricutural civil servant at the time, he is of English descent.
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At 8 years of age Dawkins moves to Britian, his fathers homeland
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In 1954 Dawkins started attending Oundle public school until the year of 1959. It was church based public school.
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Dawkins converts from his fathers faith "Anglicanism" to the idea of atheistic evolution. He believes that this theory is much more logical.
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Richard startes to study zoology at Balliol College in Oxford. He was tutored by Noble prize winner Nikolaas Tinbergen.
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He continues to study under Tinbergen until he gets his Masters of Arts and Doctor of Philosphy. for the next year afer he remained a research assistant.
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During a 2 year spand of 1967 to 1969 Dawkins becomes a Assiant professor of zoology. He also demonstrates acts against the vietnamise war.
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He marries fellow ethologist Marian stamp in Annestown, County Waterford, Ireland.
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one Dawkins greatest books on the idea of gene-centered view of evolution. he notes "all life evolves by the differential survival of replicating entities"
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A book written by Dawkins arguing that genes only directly control the synthesis of proteins. and the new idea of an extended phenotype(hense the name)
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He divorces his wife.
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Dawkins remarries to Eve Barham. They also have a daughter together born in the same year (Juliet Emma Dawkins).
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Dawkins and John Maynard Smith debate A.E. Wilder-Smith and Edgar Andrews on creationism vs atheism
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Dawkins takes a position to be a proffesor of the public understanding of science at Oxford. he does this until the year os 2008
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Dawkins most famous book by far. though not much to do with ideas of evolution it gives Dawkins opinions on why a creator is not a valid theory for the start of the universe and is the biggest book in atheistic apologetics.
