Richard Dawkins bibliography

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The following list of publications by Richard Dawkins is a chronological list of papers, articles, essays and books published by British ethologist and evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins.

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

Korean translation of The God Delusion

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.

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. PMID 11189460.
• Dawkins, R. (2004-09-11). "Gerin Oil". Free Inquiry. Archived from the original on 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 2024-02-18). PMID 17695847.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of February 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. PMID 5684149.
• Dawkins, Richard (1969). "A threshold model of choice behaviour". Animal Behaviour. 17: 120–133. doi:10.1016/0003-3472(69)90120-1. ISSN 0003-3472.
• Dawkins, Richard (1969). "The attention threshold model". Animal Behaviour. 17: 134–141. doi:10.1016/0003-3472(69)90121-3. ISSN 0003-3472.
• Dawkins, R. (1969). "Bees Are Easily Distracted". Science. 165 (3895): 751. Bibcode:1969Sci...165..751D. doi:10.1126/science.165.3895.751. PMID 17742255.
• 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. ISSN 0003-3472.

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. ISSN 0003-3472.
• Dawkins, R. (1971). "Selective neurone death as a possible memory mechanism". Nature. 229 (5280): 118–119. Bibcode:1971Natur.229..118D. doi:10.1038/229118a0. PMID 4923095. S2CID 30817338.
• Dawkins, Richard (1971). "A Cheap Method of Recording Behavioural Events, for Direct Computer-Access". Behaviour. 40 (1–2): 162–172. doi:10.1163/156853971X00375. ISSN 0005-7959.
• 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. doi:10.1038/235405b0. ISSN 1476-4687.
• Dawkins, Richard; Dawkins, Marian (1973). "Decisions and the Uncertainty of Behaviour". Behaviour. 45 (1/2): 83–103. doi:10.1163/156853974X00606. ISSN 0005-7959. JSTOR 4533502.
• 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. S2CID 4278681.
• 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. PMID 1011857.
• 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. PMID 696023.
• 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. PMID 42057. S2CID 9695900.
• 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. PMID 491692.

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. ISBN 978-0-89158-960-0.
• 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. S2CID 54319297.
• Dawkins, Richard (1981). "Selfish genes in race or politics". Nature. 289 (5798): 528. doi:10.1038/289528a0. ISSN 1476-4687.
• Dawkins, Richard (1981). "Genes and culture: an awkward hybrid". Nature. 290 (5804): 345–346. doi:10.1038/290345a0. ISSN 1476-4687.
• Dawkins, Richard (1981). "In defence of selfish genes". Philosophy. 56 (218): 556–573. doi:10.1017/S0031819100050580. S2CID 170552110.
• Dawkins, Richard (1982). "Replicators and vehicles". In King's College Sociobiology Group (ed.). Current Problems in Sociobiology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 45–64. ISBN 978-0521285209.
• Dawkins, Richard (1983). "Adaptationism was always predictive and needed no defense". Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 6 (3): 360–361. doi:10.1017/S0140525X00016447. ISSN 0140-525X.
• 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. ISBN 978-0-632-02702-6.
• Dawkins, Richard (1985). "What was all the fuss about?". Nature. 316 (6030): 683–684. doi:10.1038/316683a0. ISSN 1476-4687.

1990s

• Dawkins, R. (1990). "Parasites, desiderata lists and the paradox of the organism". Parasitology. 100: S63–73. doi:10.1017/s0031182000073029. PMID 2235064. S2CID 40932736.
• Dawkins, R. (June 1991). "Evolution on the Mind". Nature. 351 (6329): 686. Bibcode:1991Natur.351..686D. doi:10.1038/351686c0. S2CID 4244210.
• 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. PMID 1375346. S2CID 4238372.
• Dawkins, Richard (1993), Singer, Peter; Cavalieri, Paola (eds.), "Gaps in the Mind", The Great Ape Project, St. Martin's Griffin, pp. 80–87, retrieved 2024-03-10
• Dawkins, R. (1994). "Evolutionary biology. The eye in a twinkling". Nature. 368 (6473): 690–691. Bibcode:1994Natur.368..690D. doi:10.1038/368690a0. PMID 8152479. S2CID 27085132.
• Dawkins, R. (December 1994). "Burying The Vehicle". Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 17 (4): 616–617. doi:10.1017/S0140525X00036207. S2CID 143378724. Archived from the original on July 15, 2008.
• Goodenough, Oliver R.; Dawkins, Richard (1994). "The 'St Jude' mind virus". Nature. 371 (6492): 23–24. doi:10.1038/371023a0. ISSN 1476-4687. PMID 8072522.
• 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. ISSN 0962-8436. JSTOR 56419.
• Dawkins, R.; Holliday, Robin (August 1997). "Religion and Science". BioEssays. 19 (8): 743. doi:10.1002/bies.950190817. S2CID 84150261.
• 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. S2CID 84574231.
• Dawkins, Richard (1997). Gould, Stephen Jay (ed.). "Human Chauvinism". Evolution. 51 (3): 1015–1020. doi:10.2307/2411179. ISSN 0014-3820. JSTOR 2411179.
• Dawkins, R. (1998). "Postmodernism Disrobed". Nature. 394 (6689): 141–143. Bibcode:1998Natur.394..141D. doi:10.1038/28089. S2CID 40887987.
• Dawkins, R. (1998). "Arresting evidence". The Sciences. 38 (6): 20–5. doi:10.1002/j.2326-1951.1998.tb03673.x. PMID 11657757.

2000s

• Dawkins, R. (2000). "W. D. Hamilton memorial". Nature. 405 (6788): 733. doi:10.1038/35015793. S2CID 5336222.
• Dawkins, R. (2002). "Should doctors be Darwinian?". Transactions of the Medical Society of London. 119: 15–30. PMID 17184029.
• Blakemore C, Dawkins R, Noble D, Yudkin M (2003). "Is a scientific boycott ever justified?". Nature. 421 (6921): 314. doi:10.1038/421314b. PMID 12540875. S2CID 47249920.
• 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. ISBN 978-0-415-33798-4.
• 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. S2CID 85750258.

Forewords

Richard Dawkins has also written forewords to books, including:

• Red Strangers by Elspeth Huxley, republished by Penguin Books, 1999.
• The Meme Machine by Susan Blackmore, Oxford University Press, 1999.
• Pyramids of Life by Harvey Croze and John Reader, Harvill Press, 2000.
• Snake Oil and Other Preoccupations by John Diamond, Vintage, 2001.
• The Lion Children, by Angus, Maisie and Travers McNeice, Orion Books, 2001.
• A new student edition of Charles Darwin's The Descent of Man, Gibson Square Books, 2002.
• A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence by Jeff Hawkins, Basic Books, 2021