Richard Dawkins Net Worth

Clinton Richard Dawkins has an estimated net worth of $135 Million

Clinton Richard Dawkins Wiki Biography

Clinton Richard Dawkins, an English descent, was born on 26 March 1941 in Nairobi, Kenya, Africa. He is a writer and evolutionary biologist, best known for various books on evolution including “The Selfish Gene”. He is also credited with coining the term “meme” and has notably published books with views on religion and creationism, accumulating a net worth of $135 million, according to sources in early 2016.

Richard Dawkins Net Worth $135 Million

Coming from a family keen on sciences, Dawkins held creationist beliefs until he encountered the theory of evolution during his education. He attended Oundle School and later graduated from Balliol College, Oxford with a degree in Zoology. Under the mentorship of Nobel Prize winner Nikolaas Tinbergen, he earned his master’s and then PhD. He pursued a teaching career, becoming an assistant professor at the University of California, Berkeley. Later in 1970, he became a fellow of New College, Oxford and eventually an emeritus fellow. He became well known for his lectures, such as the “Erasmus Darwin Memorial Lecture” and the “Tanner Lectures”. His popularity even gave him the chance to judge events like the “British Academy Television Awards”.

Besides his educational career, Dawkins has made significant contributions in evolutionary biology, particularly with the idea of the gene as the main unit of evolution. He gained widespread recognition after publishing “The Selfish Gene” in 1976. In 1982, he released another book – “The Extended Phenotype”. His work has been noted in various publications, though he remains highly critical of some of them, especially when his ideas become misunderstood in the context of other ideas. He introduced the term “meme” in “The Selfish Gene”, defining it as any cultural entity that may replicate an idea or set of ideas.

Dawkins has been a vocal critic of creationism and religion, authoring several books against them and founding the Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science, focusing on the psychology of religion and belief research. His most popular work against religion is the book “The God Delusion” released in 2006. His viewpoints have garnered both praise and criticism from scientists.

On a personal level, Dawkins has been married three times. His first marriage to ethologist Marian Stamp lasted from 1967 to 1984. His second marriage to Eve Barham in 1984 ended in divorce in 1992. Dawkins then married actress Lalla Ward in the same year.



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