University of Kansas Speech
By RICHARD DAWKINS
Added: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 23:00:00 UTC
UPDATE 10-30-06: This is the new audio from the video of this event. It's much higher quality!
UPDATE: View photos from this event here.
Richard Dawkins speaks about his latest book The God Delusion at the University of Kansas in Lawrence.
Professor Richard Dawkins is an ethologist, someone who studies animal behavior, and evolutionary theorist. A University of Oxford graduate, he is the first to hold the Charles Simonyi Chair in the Public Understanding of Science at Oxford. He did his doctorate under the Nobel prize-winning ethologist Niko Tinbergen. Dawkins’s first book, The Selfish Gene (1976; 1989) became an international bestseller and The Blind Watchmaker (1986) won the Royal Society of Literature Award and the Los Angeles Times Prize. His other bestsellers include River Out of Eden (1995), Unweaving the Rainbow (1998) and A Devil's Chaplain (2003). His most recent book is The Ancestor’s Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution (2004). His lastest best seller, The God Delusion, will be available for purchase and signing.
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