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Studied under <a href="/people/800/000113461/">Nikolaas Tinbergen</a>, and was introduced to his wife by <a href="/people/731/000023662/">Douglas Adams</a>. At age 9 Dawkins discovered the Argument from Design as proof of God and became deeply religious. At age 16 he decided Darwinism was a better explanation for design and converted to atheism.<p><b>Father:</b> Clinton John Dawkins (b. 1915, d. 2010)<br><b>Mother:</b> Jean Mary Vyvyan Ladner (m. 1939)<br><b>Wife:</b> Marian Stamp (m. 19-Aug-1967, div. 1984)<br><b>Wife:</b> Eve Barham (m. 1-Jun-1984, div., d.)<br><b>Daughter:</b> Juliet<br><b>Wife:</b> <a href="/people/800/000026722/">Lalla Ward</a> (actress, m. 1992)<br><p> High School: <a href="/edu/844/000111511/">Oundle School, Peterborough, England (1959)</a><br> University: <a href="/edu/486/000068282/">BA Zoology, Balliol College, Oxford University (1962)</a><br> University: <a href="/edu/486/000068282/">PhD, Oxford University</a><br> Professor: <a href="/edu/470/000068266/">University of California at Berkeley (1967-69)</a><br> Professor: <a href="/edu/486/000068282/">Oxford University</a><br><p> <a href="/org/397/000118043/">British Humanist Association</a> <br> <a href="/org/250/000163758/">Committee for Skeptical Inquiry</a> Fellow<br> <a href="/org/828/000056660/">CSICOP</a> Fellow<br> <a href="/org/616/000067415/">International Academy of Humanism</a> Laureate<br> <a href="/org/521/000118167/">National Secular Society</a> Honorary Associate<br> <a href="/org/793/000055628/">Royal Society</a> 2001<br> <a href="/org/486/000135081/">Secular Coalition for America</a> Advisory Board<br> <a href="/org/508/000135103/">Secular Student Alliance</a> Academic Advisory Board<br> <a href="/org/221/000165723/">World Technology Network</a> <br> <a href="/honors/196/000165698/">Faraday Prize</a> 1990<br> <a href="/honors/151/000165653/">Humanist of the Year</a> 1996<br> <a href="/group/788/000080548/">The Third Culture</a> <br> <a href="/event/559/000085304/">Converted to Atheism</a> formerly Anglican<br><p> <font size=-2 face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR</font><br> <a href="/films/810/000386649/">The Unbelievers (29-Apr-2013)</a> · Himself<br> <a href="/films/984/000379844/">The Nature of Existence (Apr-2009)</a> <br> <a href="/films/186/000173664/">Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed (18-Apr-2008)</a> · Himself<br> <a href="/films/873/000274051/">Root of All Evil? (9-Jan-2006)</a> · Himself<br> <a href="/films/505/000131112/">The God Who Wasn't There (21-May-2005)</a> · Himself<br><p> <b>Official Website:</b><br><a href="http://www.richarddawkins.net/" target=_blank>http://www.richarddawkins.net/</a><p> <b>Author of books:</b><br> <i>The Selfish Gene</i> (<tt>1976</tt>)<br><i>The Extended Phenotype</i> (<tt>1982</tt>)<br><i>The Blind Watchmaker</i> (<tt>1986</tt>)<br><i>River out of Eden</i> (<tt>1995</tt>)<br><i>Climbing Mount Improbable</i> (<tt>1996</tt>)<br><i>Unweaving the Rainbow</i> (<tt>1998</tt>)<br><i>A Devil's Chaplain</i> (<tt>2003</tt>)<br><i>The Ancestor's Tale</i> (<tt>2004</tt>)<br><i>The God Delusion</i> (<tt>2006</tt>)<br><p> <br> <p> <table> <tr> <td align=right valign=middle style="padding-right: 5px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 22px; font-style: italic; color: #ff3333;">New!</span><br> <a href="http://mapper.nndb.com/" class="fotmlink" style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; color: #dd0000;">NNDB MAPPER</a></td> <td valign=middle align=right style="border-left: 1px solid #bbb; padding-left: 5px;">Create a map starting with</td> <td valign=middle align=right><a href="http://mapper.nndb.com/start/?id=24209"><img src="/man.gif" border=0 style="padding: 2px;"></a></td> <td align=left valign=middle> <a href="http://mapper.nndb.com/start/?id=24209">Richard Dawkins</a></td> </tr> </table> <font face="Trebuchet MS, arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="-2">Requires Flash 7+ and Javascript.</font> <br><br><p> <font size=-1>Do you know something we don't?</font><br> <font size=-1><a href="http://commentary.nndb.com/submit/feedback/?id=24209" rel="nofollow">Submit a correction or make a comment about this profile</a></font><br> <p> <br><br><p><font size=-1>Copyright ©2019 Soylent Communications</font><p> </td></tr></table> </td></tr> </table> </td> <td width=180 align="center" valign="top" style="padding: 0px 0px 8px 25px;"></td></tr> </table> </center> </body> </html>