LIVERPOOL 2008
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When Professor Richard Dawkins published The Selfish Gene in 1976, it became an immediate international bestseller. Its sequel, The Extended Phenotype, was then followed by The Blind Watchmaker, River out of Eden, Climbing Mount Improbable, Unweaving the Rainbow, A Devil’s Chaplain, The Ancestor’s Tale and his most recent publication, The God Delusion.
His many bestselling books have been influential in bringing understanding of evolutionary theory to a mass audience, but it is The God Delusion that has perhaps courted the most controversy, exploring his opinion that belief in God is both illogical and harmful to society.
Professor Dawkins has won several literary and scientific awards including the Royal Society of Literature Award, the Los Angeles Times Prize and the Michael Faraday Award of the Royal Society.
