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Richard Dawkins

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Richard Dawkins (born 26 March 1941) is a British evolutionary biologist and author. He is an emeritus fellow of New College, Oxford, and was Professor for Public Understanding of Science in the University of Oxford from 1995 to 2008. His 1976 book The Selfish Gene popularised the gene-centred view of evolution, as well as coining the term meme. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Richard Dawkins has received more than 8,832,988 page views. His biography is available in 93 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 90 in 2019). Richard Dawkins is the 16th most popular biologist, the most popular biography from Kenya and the most popular Kenyan Biologist.

Richard Dawkins is an evolutionary biologist and writer who is most famous for his book The Selfish Gene.

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  • 93

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  • 7.50

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  • 5.30

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Richard Dawkins ranks 16 out of 841Before him are James Watson, Karl Landsteiner, Konrad Lorenz, Rosalind Franklin, Thomas Hunt Morgan, and Alfred Russel Wallace. After him are Georges Cuvier, Francis Crick, Robert Brown, Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, Thomas Henry Huxley, and Maria Sibylla Merian.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1941, Richard Dawkins ranks 10Before him are Alex Ferguson, Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Bernardo Bertolucci, Sergio Mattarella, and Charlie Watts. After him are Cesária Évora, Krzysztof Kieślowski, Martha Argerich, Plácido Domingo, Bruno Ganz, and Fethullah Gülen.

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In Kenya

Among people born in Kenya, Richard Dawkins ranks 1 out of 140After him are Wangari Maathai (1940), Barack Obama Sr. (1936), Jomo Kenyatta (1893), Louis Leakey (1903), Richard Leakey (1944), Roger Whittaker (1936), Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o (1938), Daniel arap Moi (1924), Deep Roy (1949), Mwai Kibaki (1931), and Eliud Kipchoge (1984).

Among BIOLOGISTS In Kenya

Among biologists born in Kenya, Richard Dawkins ranks 1

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