‘ “Beyond reasonable doubt”?’: First published as ‘O J Simpson wouldn’t be so lucky again’, in New Statesman, 23 January 2012.
‘But can they suffer?’: First published on boingboing.net, 30 June 2011.
‘I love fireworks, but…’: A version of this article was published in the Daily Mail, 4 November 2014.
‘Who would rally against reason?’: Originally published in Washington Post, 21 March 2012; reproduced with minimal changes on the website of the Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science on 31 May 2016 (https://richarddawkins.net/2016/05/who-would-rally-against-reason/).
‘In praise of subtitles; or, a drubbing for dubbing’: A slightly abridged version was first published in Prospect, August 2016.
‘If I ruled the world…’: First published in Prospect, March 2011.
VI. The sacred truth of nature
‘About time’: Text of speech given to open an exhibition of the same title held by the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford in 2001, and published in the Oxford Magazine, 2001.
‘The giant tortoise’s tale: islands within islands’: First published in the Guardian, 19 February 2005.
‘The sea turtle’s tale: there and back again (and again?)’: First published in the Guardian, 26 February 2005.
‘Farewell to a digerati dreamer’: First published as foreword to Douglas Adams and Mark Carwardine, Last Chance to See, new edn (London, Arrow, 2009).
VII. Laughing at live dragons
‘Fundraising for faith’: First published in New Statesman, 2 April 2009.
‘The Great Bus Mystery’: First published in Ariane Sherine, ed., The Atheist’s Guide to Christmas (London, HarperCollins, 2009). Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers Ltd. © author 2009.
‘Jarvis and the Family Tree’: written in 2010; previously unpublished.
‘Gerin Oil’: First published in Free Inquiry, December 2003, and then abridged, as ‘Opiate of the masses’, in Prospect, October 2005.
‘Sage elder statesman of the dinosaur fancy’: First published as foreword to Robert Mash, How to Keep Dinosaurs, 2nd edn (London, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2003). Reproduced with permission of The Orion Publishing Group, London. Foreword © Richard Dawkins, 2003.
‘Athorism: let’s hope it’s a lasting vogue’: First published in Washington Post, 1 January 2007.
‘Dawkins’ Laws’: Response to 2004 the Edge annual question, ‘What is your Law?’: https://www.edge.org/annual-question/whats-your-law.
VIII. No man is an island
‘Memories of a maestro’: Text of opening speech at conference to honour Niko Tinbergen, 20 March 1990, subsequently published as the introduction to M. S. Dawkins, T. R. Halliday and R. Dawkins, eds, The Tinbergen Legacy (London, Chapman & Hall, 1991).
‘O my beloved father: John Dawkins, 1915–2010’: First published as ‘Lives remembered: John Dawkins’, Independent, 11 December 2010. © The Independent, www.independent.co.uk.
‘More than my uncle: A. F. “Bill” Dawkins, 1916–2009’: Eulogy delivered at St Michael and All Angels Church, Stockland, Devon, 11 November 2009.
‘Honouring Hitch’: Speech made at ceremony to present the Atheist Alliance of America’s Richard Dawkins Award to Christopher Hitchens at the Texas Freethought Convention, 8 October 2011.
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Also by Richard Dawkins
The Selfish Gene
The Extended Phenotype
The Blind Watchmaker
River Out of Eden
Climbing Mount Improbable
Unweaving the Rainbow
A Devil’s Chaplain
The Ancestor’s Tale
The God Delusion
The Greatest Show on Earth
The Magic of Reality (with Dave McKean)
An Appetite for Wonder
Brief Candle in the Dark
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Richard Dawkins is an ethologist and evolutionary biologist and from 1995 to 2008 was the University of Oxford’s Professor for Public Understanding of Science. He was first catapulted to fame with his iconic work of 1976, The Selfish Gene, which he followed with a string of prestigious bestselling books including The Blind Watchmaker, Climbing Mount Improbable, The Ancestor’s Tale and The God Delusion. He is also the author of the anthology A Devil’s Chaplain and two volumes of autobiography, An Appetite for Wonder and Brief Candle in the Dark. He is a Fellow of both the Royal Society and the Royal Society of Literature, and the recipient of numerous honours and awards. He remains a fellow of New College, Oxford. In 2013, Dawkins was voted the world’s top thinker in Prospect magazine’s poll of 10,000 readers from over a hundred countries.
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