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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.

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.^[1]
Books Do Furnish a Life. 2021.^[2]
Flights of Fancy: Defying Gravity by Design and Evolution. 2021.

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, R. (1969). "Bees Are Easily Distracted". Science. 165 (3895): 751. Bibcode:1969Sci...165..751D. doi:10.1126/science.165.3895.751. PMID 17742255.

1970s

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.
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.
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): 405–405. doi:10.1038/235405b0. ISSN 1476-4687.
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). "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.
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.

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, 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, 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. (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.
Dawkins, R. (September 1995). "The Evolved Imagination". Natural History. 104 (9): 8.
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.
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:^[3]

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

References

^ "This Life and Outgrowing God review – heaven, atheism and what gives life meaning". the Guardian. 2019-10-02. Retrieved 2023-01-26.
^ Chivers, Tom. "Books Do Furnish a Life by Richard Dawkins review — still feuding and fighting at 80". The Times. ISSN 0140-0460. Retrieved 2023-01-26.
^ Some of the forewords written by Richard Dawkins are reprinted in The Devil's Chaplain: Selected Essays, Phoenix, 2003 (ISBN 978-0-7538-1750-6).

[1] "This Life and Outgrowing God review – heaven, atheism and what gives life meaning". the Guardian. 2019-10-02. Retrieved 2023-01-26.

[2] Chivers, Tom. "Books Do Furnish a Life by Richard Dawkins review — still feuding and fighting at 80". The Times. ISSN 0140-0460. Retrieved 2023-01-26.

[3] Some of the forewords written by Richard Dawkins are reprinted in The Devil's Chaplain: Selected Essays, Phoenix, 2003 (ISBN 978-0-7538-1750-6).

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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 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: The Making of a Scientist (2013) Brief Candle in the Dark: My Life in Science (2015) Science in the Soul: Selected Writings of a Passionate Rationalist (2017) Outgrowing God: A Beginner's Guide (2019) Books Do Furnish a Life: Reading and Writing Science (2021) Flights of Fancy: Defying Gravity by Design and Evolution (2021) The Genetic Book of the Dead (2024)
Related works	Growing Up in the Universe (1991) Dawkins vs. Gould (2001) Beyond Belief (2006) Richard Dawkins: How a Scientist Changed the Way We Think (2006) The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing (2008)
Documentaries	Nice Guys Finish First (1987) The Blind Watchmaker (1987) Break the Science Barrier (1996) The Atheism Tapes (2004) The Root of All Evil? (2006) The Enemies of Reason (2007) The Genius of Charles Darwin (2008) Faith School Menace? (2010) Sex, Death and the Meaning of Life (2012) The Unbelievers (2013)
See also	Meme Atheist Bus Campaign Out Campaign Gerin oil Foundation for Reason and Science Professorship for the Public Understanding of Science Ultimate Boeing 747 gambit Lalla Ward Weasel program Marian Dawkins Middle World Go God Go Go God Go XII God's utility function Courtier's reply Spectrum of theistic probability Universal Darwinism Endless Forms Most Beautiful When the Professor Got Stuck in the Snow Richard Dawkins Award
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