Richard Dawkins Books
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Instead of making any useful or meaningful contribution to his chosen field of ethology Richard Dawkins choose to write books.
Richard Dawkins has authored or substantially co-authored 10 books Mostly on evolution
- The Selfish Gene- (1976) About how everything in behavior is supposedly driven by selfish replication.
- The Extended Phenotype- (1982) About how far small genetic variations reach, primarily mortaring over cracks in his original book.
- The Blind watchmaker (1986) A book all about how the appearance of design is proof that there was no designer
- River out of Eden- (1995)
- Climbing Mount Improbable- (1996) A somewhat paradoxical text arguing that improbably events are really probable, flying in the face of modern statistics.
- Unweaving the Rainbow- (1998) A book about how explaining away mysteries doesn't destroy the romance of them, in the process completely destroying the romance of several mysteries.
- A Devil's Chaplain- (2003)
- The Ancestor's Tale- (2004) A very repetitive book discussing the benefits of several characteristics of living species, and attempting to link them together in a lineage for mankind
- The God Delusion- (2006) A book where he attempts to show that belief in God is irrational.
- The Greatest Show on Earth- 2009 subtitled the evidence for evolution. Dawkins personal summary and narrative about why everyone should have faith in evolution. Counterexamples not included.