Richard Dawkins
The famed author and public intellectual has a bone to pick with the American legal system.
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Author, speaker, and public intellectual Richard Dawkins is a first-class debater on subjects as grand and reaching as the very existence (or lack thereof) of a master creator. But he's got a simple yet highly effective technique to win people over to see his point of view. Find out what it is right here.
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The US is arguably the most scientifically and technologically advanced society in the world, and yet at the same time the most religious of Western societies.
All science begins with a leap of intuition, says Richard Dawkins, but we can only ever find objective truths by knowing when to let evidence take over from emotion.
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Elitism has come under fire since the recent wave of populist politics. But when we don't listen to experts, we end up listening to politicians' lies, says Richard Dawkins.
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Richard Dawkins responds to the Alt-Right, Trump's policies, and discusses the evil potential of ideology.
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We're at risk of mistaking the music for the piano in using a “jump to the gene” approach to biology. It's time for a more fitting view of genes to evolve.
Your mind is built to process contradictory, irrational ideas. Use that to reach new intellectual heights.
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We are what we are because of genes; we are who we are because of memes. Philosopher Daniel Dennett muses on an idea put forward by Richard Dawkins in 1976.
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Scarcely noticed in the Eden story, there lurk fruitful scientific ideas about why biology generated morality.
Work on "memes" by Richard Dawkins provides insight on the spread of thought viruses.
Our picture of life is going through a major shift. Ed Yong's book I Contain Multitudes reveals that a genome generally doesn’t contain all the genes an organism needs. Symbiosis isn’t rare, it's the rule. And we're just the icing on life's vast microbial cake.
The famed evolutionary biologist summarizes his research into the genetic basis of evolution.
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