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There is no book quite like Richard Dawkins’ The Selfish Gene. Forty years after its first publication, the book is still in Amazon’s top 10 for both the Genetics and Evolution categories, with over a million copies sold and more than 25 translated versions. Perhaps the best indicator of its enduring importance is its overwhelming influence on generations of scientists — including the authors of this piece — whom it inspired to explore genetics, genomics, and evolution. Where does the legacy of the book that took Darwin’s theory of evolution to its logical conclusion stand 40 years on?

The New Statesman guest editor's Christmas issue essay, 2011

This pipe-dream is the final section of my long article, "Extended Phenotype – but not too extended". The full article was originally published here: Biology and Philosophy 19: 377–396, 2004.

A Prayer for my Daughter on her tenth birthday. 

My grandparents, Clinton George Evelyn Dawkins (1882-1966) and Frances Enid Dawkins (1889-1982) made a somewhat hazardous journey down the length of Africa, recounted in this 1949 lecture that she gave on their return, probably to their local Guild of Arts in Essex. My sister Sarah and I discovered her text during our Augean Stables clear-out of our parents’ house this week. Here is my transcript of my grandmother’s handwriting.