Richard Dawkins

British · b. 1941

An evolutionary biologist and popular science writer, best known for The Selfish Gene (1976), which introduced the concept of the meme and reframed natural selection from the perspective of replicating genes. His later work The God Delusion (2006) made him one of the public faces of New Atheism alongside Sam Harris, Christopher Hitchens, and Daniel Dennett. In recent years he has been increasingly visible on social media, where his contrarian takes on literature, politics, and culture — including a viral tweet dismissing Kafka's Metamorphosis as overrated — have earned him both fans and critics.

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