Richard Dawkins bibliography

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French translation ofThe Selfish Gene(chapter 11: "Memes: the new replicators" )

Korean translation ofThe God Delusion

The followinglist of publications by Richard Dawkinsis a chronological list of papers, articles, essays and books published byBritishethologistandevolutionary biologistRichard Dawkins.

He has also written many book reviews and newspaper articles which are not listed on this page.

Books

• The Selfish Gene.1976.
• The Extended Phenotype.1982.
• The Blind Watchmaker.1986.
• River Out of Eden.1995.
• Climbing Mount Improbable.1996.
• Unweaving the Rainbow.1998.
• A Devil's Chaplain.2003.
• The Ancestor's Tale.2004.
• The God Delusion.2006.
• The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing.2008.
• The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution.2009.
• The Magic of Reality: How We Know What's Really True.2011.
• An Appetite for Wonder.2013.
• Brief Candle in the Dark.2015.
• Science in the Soul.2017.
• Outgrowing God.2019.
• Books Do Furnish a Life.2021.
• Flights of Fancy: Defying Gravity by Design and Evolution.2021.
• The Genetic Book of the Dead.2024.

Popular articles

• Dawkins, R. (January 1982)."The myth of genetic determinism".New Scientist:27–30.
• Dawkins, R. (September 1986)."Creation and Natural Selection".New Scientist:34–38.
• Dawkins, R. (June 1992)."Lions 10, Christians Nil".New Humanist.107:2–3.
• Dawkins, R. (December 1992). "Is god a computer virus?".New Statesman.5(233): 42–45.
• Dawkins, R. (June 1993). "Meet my cousin, the chimpanzee".New Scientist.138(1876): 36–38.
• Dawkins, R. (1993)."The 'Awe' Factor".Skeptical Inquirer.17:242–243.
• Dawkins, R. (1993)."Viruses of the Mind"(PDF).Free Inquiry:34–41.
• Dawkins, R. (September 1995). "The Evolved Imagination".Natural History.104(9): 8.
• Dawkins, R. (1995)."Putting Away Childish Things".Skeptical Inquirer.19:31–36.
• Dawkins, R. (November 1995). "God's Utility Function".Scientific American.273(5): 80–85.Bibcode:1995SciAm.273e..80D.doi:10.1038/scientificamerican1195-80.
• Dawkins, R. (1995-12-30)."The real romance in the stars".Independent.
• Dawkins, R. (10 April 1999)."Snake Oil and Holy Water".Forbes:235+.
• Dawkins, R. (2 October 2000)."Hall of Mirrors".Forbes:273.
• Dawkins, R. (January 2001). "What is science good for?".Harvard Business Review.79(1): 159–63, 178.PMID11189460.
• Dawkins, R. (2004-09-11)."Gerin Oil".Free Inquiry.Archived fromthe originalon 2011-07-25.
• Dawkins, R. (2005-02-19)."The Giant Tortoise's Tale".The Guardian.
• Dawkins, R. (2005-02-26)."The Turtle's Tale".The Guardian(London).
• Dawkins, R. (2005-05-21). "God's Gift to Kansas".The Times(London).
• Dawkins, R."The Lava Lizard's Tale".The Guardian.
• Dawkins, R.; Dawkins, R; Noble, D; Yudkin, M (2007). "Genes still central".New Scientist.196(2634): 18.doi:10.1016/S0262-4079(07)63136-4.
• Krauss, L.M.; Dawkins, R. (2007). "Should science speak to faith?".Scientific American.297(1): 88–91.Bibcode:2007SciAm.297a..88K.doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0707-88(inactive 1 November 2024).PMID17695847.{{cite journal}}:CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of November 2024 (link)
• Dawkins, R. (2008). "The group delusion".New Scientist.197(2638): 17.doi:10.1016/S0262-4079(08)60086-X.
• Dawkins, R. (2008). "The evolution of altruism – what matters is gene selection".New Scientist.197(2638): 17.doi:10.1016/S0262-4079(08)60086-X.

Academic papers

1960s

• Dawkins, R. (1968). "The ontogeny of a pecking preference in domestic chicks".Zeitschrift für Tierpsychologie.25(2): 170–186.doi:10.1111/j.1439-0310.1968.tb00011.x.PMID5684149.
• Dawkins, Richard (1969)."A threshold model of choice behaviour".Animal Behaviour.17:120–133.doi:10.1016/0003-3472(69)90120-1.ISSN0003-3472.
• Dawkins, Richard (1969)."The attention threshold model".Animal Behaviour.17:134–141.doi:10.1016/0003-3472(69)90121-3.ISSN0003-3472.
• Dawkins, R. (1969). "Bees Are Easily Distracted".Science.165(3895): 751.Bibcode:1969Sci...165..751D.doi:10.1126/science.165.3895.751.PMID17742255.
• Dawkins, Richard; Impekoven, Monica (1969)."The 'peck/no-peck decision-maker' in the black-headed gull chick".Animal Behaviour.17:243–251.doi:10.1016/0003-3472(69)90009-8.ISSN0003-3472.

1970s

• Smith, James N.M.; Dawkins, Richard (1971)."The hunting behaviour of individual great tits in relation to spatial variations in their food density".Animal Behaviour.19(4): 695–706.doi:10.1016/s0003-3472(71)80173-2.ISSN0003-3472.
• Dawkins, R. (1971). "Selective neurone death as a possible memory mechanism".Nature.229(5280): 118–119.Bibcode:1971Natur.229..118D.doi:10.1038/229118a0.PMID4923095.S2CID30817338.
• Dawkins, Richard (1971)."A Cheap Method of Recording Behavioural Events, for Direct Computer-Access".Behaviour.40(1–2): 162–172.doi:10.1163/156853971X00375.ISSN0005-7959.
• Abel, Bob; Anderson, J. M.; Anderson, H. R.; Bawden, N.; Bell, Graham; Campbell, Ian; Cody, C. J.; Cornwallis, L.; Dawkins, Marian; Dawkins, Richard; Dawson, David; Diamond, A. W.; Douglas-Hamilton, Iain; Dunn, E. K.; Grant, P. (1972).""Blueprint for Survival"".Nature.235(5338): 405.Bibcode:1972Natur.235..405A.doi:10.1038/235405b0.ISSN1476-4687.
• Dawkins, Richard; Dawkins, Marian (1973)."Decisions and the Uncertainty of Behaviour".Behaviour.45(1/2): 83–103.doi:10.1163/156853974X00606.ISSN0005-7959.JSTOR4533502.
• Dawkins, R. (1976). "Growing points in ethology". In Bateson, P.P.G.; Hinde, R.A. (eds.).Hierarchical organization: A candidate principle for ethology.Cambridge:Cambridge University Press.
• Dawkins, R.; Carlisle, T.R. (1976). "Parental investment, mate desertion and a fallacy".Nature.262(5564): 131–133.Bibcode:1976Natur.262..131D.doi:10.1038/262131a0.S2CID4278681.
• Treisman, M.; Dawkins, R. (1976). "The" cost of meiosis ": is there any?".Journal of Theoretical Biology.63(2): 479–484.Bibcode:1976JThBi..63..479T.doi:10.1016/0022-5193(76)90047-3.PMID1011857.
• Dawkins, R. (1976). "Universal Darwinism". In Bendall, D.S. (ed.).Evolution from Molecules to Men.Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 403–425.
• Dawkins R (1978). "Replicator selection and the extended phenotype".Zeitschrift für Tierpsychologie.47(1): 61–76.doi:10.1111/j.1439-0310.1978.tb01823.x.PMID696023.
• Dawkins, R.;Krebs, J.R.(1978). "Animal signals: information or manipulation".Behavioural Ecology: An Evolutionary Approach.Oxford: Blackwell Scientific Publications. pp. 282–309.
• Dawkins, R. (1979)."Twelve Misunderstandings of Kin Selection".Zeitschrift für Tierpsychologie.51(2): 184–200.doi:10.1111/j.1439-0310.1979.tb00682.x.
• Dawkins, R.;Krebs, J.R.(1979). "Arms races between and within species".Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B.205(1161): 489–511.Bibcode:1979RSPSB.205..489D.doi:10.1098/rspb.1979.0081.PMID42057.S2CID9695900.
• Brockmann, H.J.; Dawkins, R.; Grafen A. (1979). "Joint nesting in a digger wasp as an evolutionarily stable preadaptation to social life".Behaviour.71(3): 203–244.doi:10.1163/156853979X00179.
• Brockmann, H. Jane; Grafen, Alan; Dawkins, Richard (1979). "Evolutionarily stable nesting strategy in a digger wasp".Journal of Theoretical Biology.77(4): 473–496.Bibcode:1979JThBi..77..473J.doi:10.1016/0022-5193(79)90021-3.PMID491692.

1980s

• Dawkins, R. (1980). "Good strategy or evolutionarily stable strategy". In Barlow, G.W.; Silverberg, J. (eds.).Sociobiology: Beyond Nature/Nurture?.Colorado:Westview Press.pp. 331–337.ISBN978-0-89158-960-0.
• Dawkins, Richard; Brockmann, H.J. (1980). "Do digger wasps commit the concorde fallacy?".Animal Behaviour.28(3): 892–896.doi:10.1016/S0003-3472(80)80149-7.S2CID54319297.
• Dawkins, Richard (1981)."Selfish genes in race or politics".Nature.289(5798): 528.Bibcode:1981Natur.289..528D.doi:10.1038/289528a0.ISSN1476-4687.
• Dawkins, Richard (1981)."Genes and culture: an awkward hybrid".Nature.290(5804): 345–346.Bibcode:1981Natur.290..345D.doi:10.1038/290345a0.ISSN1476-4687.
• Dawkins, Richard (1981)."In defence of selfish genes".Philosophy.56(218): 556–573.doi:10.1017/S0031819100050580.S2CID170552110.
• Dawkins, Richard (1982). "Replicators and vehicles". In King's College Sociobiology Group (ed.).Current Problems in Sociobiology.Cambridge:Cambridge University Press.pp. 45–64.ISBN978-0521285209.
• Dawkins, Richard (1983)."Adaptationism was always predictive and needed no defense".Behavioral and Brain Sciences.6(3): 360–361.doi:10.1017/S0140525X00016447.ISSN0140-525X.
• Krebs, J.R.; Dawkins, R. (1984). "Animal signals: mind-reading and manipulation". In Krebs, J. R.; Davies, N.B. (eds.).Behavioural Ecology: An Evolutionary Approach.Oxford: Blackwell Scientific Publications. pp. 380–402.ISBN978-0-632-02702-6.
• Dawkins, Richard (1985)."What was all the fuss about?".Nature.316(6030): 683–684.Bibcode:1985Natur.316..683D.doi:10.1038/316683a0.ISSN1476-4687.

1990s

• Dawkins, R. (1990). "Parasites, desiderata lists and the paradox of the organism".Parasitology.100:S63–73.doi:10.1017/s0031182000073029.PMID2235064.S2CID40932736.
• Dawkins, R. (June 1991)."Evolution on the Mind".Nature.351(6329): 686.Bibcode:1991Natur.351..686D.doi:10.1038/351686c0.S2CID4244210.
• Hurst, L.D.; Dawkins, R. (May 1992). "Evolutionary Chemistry: Life in a Test Tube".Nature.357(6375): 198–199.Bibcode:1992Natur.357..198H.doi:10.1038/357198a0.PMID1375346.S2CID4238372.
• Dawkins, Richard (1993), Singer, Peter; Cavalieri, Paola (eds.),"Gaps in the Mind",The Great Ape Project,St. Martin's Griffin, pp. 80–87,retrieved2024-03-10
• Dawkins, R. (1994)."Evolutionary biology. The eye in a twinkling".Nature.368(6473): 690–691.Bibcode:1994Natur.368..690D.doi:10.1038/368690a0.PMID8152479.S2CID27085132.
• Dawkins, R. (December 1994)."Burying The Vehicle".Behavioral and Brain Sciences.17(4): 616–617.doi:10.1017/S0140525X00036207.S2CID143378724.Archived fromthe originalon July 15, 2008.
• Goodenough, Oliver R.; Dawkins, Richard (1994)."The 'St Jude' mind virus".Nature.371(6492): 23–24.Bibcode:1994Natur.371...23G.doi:10.1038/371023a0.ISSN1476-4687.PMID8072522.
• Dawkins, R. (September 1995). "The Evolved Imagination".Natural History.104(9): 8.
• Dawkins, Richard (1995)."Reply to Lucy Sullivan".Philosophical Transactions: Biological Sciences.349(1328): 219–224.doi:10.1098/rstb.1995.0105.ISSN0962-8436.JSTOR56419.
• Dawkins, R.; Holliday, Robin (August 1997). "Religion and Science".BioEssays.19(8): 743.doi:10.1002/bies.950190817.S2CID84150261.
• Dawkins, R. (1997). "The Pope's message on evolution: Obscurantism to the rescue".The Quarterly Review of Biology.72(4): 397–399.doi:10.1086/419951.S2CID84574231.
• Dawkins, Richard (1997). Gould, Stephen Jay (ed.)."Human Chauvinism".Evolution.51(3): 1015–1020.doi:10.2307/2411179.ISSN0014-3820.JSTOR2411179.
• Dawkins, R. (1998)."Postmodernism Disrobed".Nature.394(6689): 141–143.Bibcode:1998Natur.394..141D.doi:10.1038/28089.S2CID40887987.
• Dawkins, R. (1998). "Arresting evidence".The Sciences.38(6): 20–5.doi:10.1002/j.2326-1951.1998.tb03673.x.PMID11657757.

2000s

• Dawkins, R. (2000)."W. D. Hamilton memorial".Nature.405(6788): 733.doi:10.1038/35015793.S2CID5336222.
• Dawkins, R. (2002). "Should doctors be Darwinian?".Transactions of the Medical Society of London.119:15–30.PMID17184029.
• Blakemore C, Dawkins R, Noble D, Yudkin M (2003)."Is a scientific boycott ever justified?".Nature.421(6921): 314.doi:10.1038/421314b.PMID12540875.S2CID47249920.
• Dawkins, R. (2003). "The evolution of evolvability".On Growth, Form and Computers.London: Academic Press.
• Dawkins, R. (2004). "Viruses of the mind". In Warburton, N. (ed.).Philosophy: Basic Readings.New York: Routledge.ISBN978-0-415-33798-4.
• Dawkins, R. (June 2004). "Extended phenotype - But not too extended. A reply to Laland, Turner and Jablonka".Biology & Philosophy.19(3): 377–396.doi:10.1023/B:BIPH.0000036180.14904.96.S2CID85750258.

Forewords

Richard Dawkins has also writtenforewordsto books, including:

• Red StrangersbyElspeth Huxley,republished by Penguin Books, 1999.
• The Meme MachinebySusan Blackmore,Oxford University Press, 1999.
• Pyramids of Lifeby Harvey Croze and John Reader, Harvill Press, 2000.
• Snake Oil and Other PreoccupationsbyJohn Diamond,Vintage, 2001.
• The Lion Children,by Angus, Maisie and Travers McNeice, Orion Books, 2001.
• A new student edition ofCharles Darwin'sThe Descent of Man,Gibson Square Books, 2002.
• A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of IntelligencebyJeff Hawkins,Basic Books, 2021