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Richard Dawkins

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Richard Dawkins (born 26 March 1941) is a British evolutionary biologist, zoologist, science communicator and author. He is an emeritus fellow of New College, Oxford, and was Professor for Public Understanding of Science at the University of Oxford from 1995 to 2008, and is on the advisory board of the University of Austin. His book The Selfish Gene (1976) popularised the gene-centred view of evolution and coined the word meme. Dawkins has won several academic and writing awards. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Richard Dawkins is the 29th most popular biologist (down from 22nd in 2019), the 2nd 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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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Richard Dawkins ranks 29 out of 1,097. Before him are Edward Tatum, Yoshinori Ohsumi, John Boyd Orr, Louis Jean Pierre Vieillot, Thomas Henry Huxley, and John Sulston. After him are Luc Montagnier, Maria Sibylla Merian, Albrecht Kossel, Conrad Gessner, Francis Crick, and George Smith.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1941, Richard Dawkins ranks 16. Before him are Joseph Hooton Taylor Jr., Cesária Évora, Riccardo Muti, Lee Myung-bak, Fethullah Gülen, and Robert Forster. After him are Bernie Sanders, Krzysztof Kieślowski, Bruno Ganz, George Smith, Vivienne Westwood, and Martha Argerich.

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In Kenya

Among people born in Kenya, Richard Dawkins ranks 2 out of 150. Before him are Wangari Maathai (1940). After him are Barack Obama Sr. (1936), Jomo Kenyatta (1893), Louis Leakey (1903), Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o (1938), Daniel arap Moi (1924), Roger Whittaker (1936), Mwai Kibaki (1931), Richard Leakey (1944), John Njue (1944), and Kipchoge Keino (1940).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Kenya

Among biologists born in Kenya, Richard Dawkins ranks 1. 

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