He became famous worldwide after publishing The Selfish Gene in 1976 and popularizing the gene-centered view of evolution, in which animal behaviors are seen as primarily being motivated by the goal of preserving and disseminating the animal’s genes. Dawkins’ graduate research centered on understanding how animals make choices. Dawkins studied zoology at Balliol College, Oxford, and completed his graduate education under Nobel-prize winning ethologist Nikolaas Tinbergen, a pioneer in animal behavior research. However, Dawkins became a fervent atheist as a teenager, after he decided that evolution provided a more convincing explanation for the biodiversity of the natural world than religion did. As a child, Dawkins believed in God because he thought such a complex and diverse natural world must have been designed by a maker, a higher power or intelligence that created it.
Dawkins was born on Main Nairobi, which was part of the colony of British Kenya at the time. Richard Dawkins is a British evolutionary biologist and ethologist, meaning he primarily studies animal behavior.
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