Richard Dawkins: bibliography

I've compiled this from the separate bibliographies contained in his books and other related books, and from a search of the New York Public Library and other online catalogues. Some entries are linked to related pages. Note that this list is not a complete record, for example it doesn't list most of his newspaper articles and some book reviews. For more see online writings.

• The ontogeny of a pecking preference in domestic chicks. Zeitschrift fŸr Tierpsychologie 25, 170-186. (1968)
• Bees are easily distracted. Science 165, 751. (1969)
• Selective neurone death as a possible memory mechanism. Nature 229, 118-119. (1971)
• Hierarchical organisation: a candidate principle for ethology. In Growing Points in Ethology (eds P. P. G. Bateson & R. A. Hinde), pp. 7-54· (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1976)
• The Selfish Gene (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1976)
• Replicator selection and the extended phenotype. Zeitschrift fŸr Tierpsychologie 47, 61-76. (1978)
• In defense of selfish genes. Philosophy 56, 556-573 (1979)
• Twelve misunderstandings of kin selection. Zeitschrift fŸr Tierpsychologie 51, 184-200. (1979)
• Defining sociobiology. Nature 280, 427-428. (1979)
• Good strategy or evolutionarily stable strategy? In Sociobiology: Beyond Nature/Nurture? (eds G. W. Barlow & J. Silverberg), pp. 331-367. (Boulder: Westview Press. 1980)
• Selfish Genes in race or politics (letter). Nature, Vol.289, No.5798, p.528 (1981)
• The Extended Phenotype (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1982)
• The myth of genetic determinism. New Scientist, Vol.93, No.1287, pp.27-30 (1982)
• The necessity of Darwinism. New Scientist, Vol.94, No.1301, pp.130-132 (1982)
• Replicators and vehicles. In Current Problems in Sociobiology (ed. King's College Sociobiology Group), pp. 45-64. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1982)
• Universal Darwinism. In D.S.Bendall (ed.) Evolution from Molecules to Men, pp. 403-25. (Cambridge:Cambridge University Press, 1982)
• Opportunity costs of inbreeding. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, Vol.6, No.1, pp.105-106 (1983)
• Adaptationism was always predictive and needed no defense. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, Vol.6, No.3, pp.360-361 (1983)
• Replicators, consequences, and displacement activities. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, Vol.7, No.4, pp.486-487 (1984)
• Review of Not in Our Genes: Biology, Ideology and Human Nature by Steven Rose, Leon J. Kamin and R.C.Lewontin. From "Sociobiology: the debate continues", New Scientist 24 January (1985)
• Time Frames: The Rethinking of Darwinian Evolution and the Theory of Punctuated Equilibria (book review). Nature, Vol.316, No.6030, pp.683-684 (1985)
• The Blind Watchmaker (New York: W.W.Norton, 1986)
• Wealth, polygyny, and reproductive success. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, Vol.9, No.1, pp.190-191 (1986)
• Creation and natural-selection. New Scientist, Vol.111, No.1527, pp.34-38 (1986)
• The Blind Watchmaker (letter). New Scientist, Vol.112, No.1532, p.65 (1986)
• Sociobiology: the new storm in a teacup. In Science and Beyond (eds. S.Rose and L. Appignanesi). (Oxford: Basil Blackwell. pp. 61-78. 1986)
• Arguments on Evolution: A Paleontologist Perspective by Hoffman, A. (book review). Nature, Vol.340, No.6228, p.25 (1989)
• Employment niche (letter). New Scientist, Vol.115, No.1571, p.64 (1987)
• Books for scraping (letter). New Scientist, Vol.120, No.1633, p.65 (1988)
• Computerized genes (letter). New Scientist, Vol.123, No.1675, p.68 (1989)
• Universal parasitism and the co-evolution of extended phenotypes. Whole Earth Review, n62 p90(10) (1989)
• The evolution of evolvability. In Artificial Life: The Quest for a New Creation - Levy S. (Sante Fe: Addison-Wesley. pp. 201-20. 1989).
• Review of Blueprints: Solving the Mystery of Evolution By Maitland A. Edey and Donald C. Johanson. Illustrated. 418 pp. Boston: Little, Brown & Company. New York Times, (Apr 9, 1989)
• The Selfish Gene, new edition (New York: Oxford University Press, 1989)
• Wonderful Life by Stephen J. Gould (book review). Sunday Telegraph, 25th Feb (1990)
• Mystery Dance by Margulius L. & Sagan D. (book review). Nature, Vol.354, No.6353, pp.442-443 (1991)
• Parasites, desiderata lists and the paradox of the organism. Parasitology, Vol.100, No.S, pp.S 63-S 73 (1991)
• Evolution of the Mind (letter). Nature, Vol.351, No.6329, p.686 (1991)
• Evolutionary Chemistry - Life in a test tube (editorial). Nature, Vol.357, No.6375, pp.198-199 (1992)
• Artificial Life: The Quest for a new Creation by S. Levy (book review). Nature, Vol.360, No.6399, pp.25-26 (1992)
• Worlds in Microcosm (lecture). Appears in Humanity, Environment and God: Glasgow Centenary Gifford Lectures, edited by Neil Spurway, pp. 106-125. (Blackwell Press, Oxford, 1993)
• The "awe" factor. Skeptical Inquirer pg. 242 (Spring 1993)
• African Eve's Descendants. Times Literary Supplement March 26, 11-12 (1993)
• Meet my cousin, the chimpanzee. New Scientist, Vol.138, No.1876, pp.36-38, Jun 5 (1993)
• Viruses of the mind. Free Inquiry, Summer, 34-41 (1993)
• The evolutionary future of man. Economist Sep 11, p.87 (1993)
• Burying the vehicle (discussion). Behavioral and Brain Sciences, Vol.17, No.4, pp.616-617 (1994)
• The eye in a twinkling. Nature, Vol.368, No.6473, pp.690-691, Apr 21 (1994)
• The telephone exchange of life. Spectator Jun 11 (1994)
• An atheist's vision of life. Spectator Aug 6 (1994)
• Myth, metaphor and hypothesis - How anthropomorphism defeats science (reply). Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London - Series B Biological Sciences. Vol.349, No.1328, pp.219-224 (1995)
• Putting away childish things. Skeptical Inquirer Jan, pp.31-36 (1995)
• Where d'you get those peepers? New Statesman & Society Jun 16, pg.29 (1995)
• The evolved imagination. Natural History, Vol.104, No.9, p.8 (1995)
• River out of Eden (New York: Basic Books. 1995)
• God's utility function. Scientific American Nov, pp.80-85 (1995) - (reprint of a chapter from River out of Eden)
• Climbing Mount Improbable (W.W.Norton, New York and Viking Penguin, London. 1996)
• Try a close encounter with truth (book review of The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark by Carl Sagan). THE TIMES, February 15 (1996)
• The Pope's message on evolution and four commentaries: 3. Obscurantism to the rescue - Quarterly Review of Biology, Vol.72, No.4, pp.397-399 (1997)
• Religion and science (letter). Bioessays, Vol.19, No.8, p.743 (1997)
• Human Chauvinism (book review of Full House by Stephen Jay Gould, also published as Life’s Grandeur). Evolution, Vol. 51, No. 3, June (1997)
• Trial by Jury. The Observer [London],  Nov 16 (1997) - Published as "Three herring gull chicks . . . the reason juries don't work"
• The Evolution of Bill Clinton: Sex and Power. The Observer [London] Mar 22 (1998)
• When Religion Steps on Science's Turf & The Emptiness of Theology. Free Inquiry, Vol 18, No 2 (Spring 1998)

• The Improbability of God - Op-Ed article Free Imquiry, Vol 18, No 3 (Summer 1998)

co-authored

• Dawkins, R. & Dawkins, M. Decisions and the uncertainty of behaviour. Behaviour 45, 83-103. (1973)
• Dawkins, R. & Carlisle, T. R. Parental investment, mate desertion and a fallacy. Nature 161, 131-133. (1976)
• Dawkins, R. & Krebs, J. R. Animal signals: information or manipulation? In Behavioural Ecology (eds J. R. Krebs & N. B. Davies), pp. 282--309. (Oxford: Blackwell Scientific Publications. 1978)
• Dawkins, R. & Krebs, J.R. Arms races between and within species. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, B, 205: 489-511 (1979)
• Dawkins, R. & H. Jane Brockman, Joint Nesting in a Digger Wasp as an Evolutionarily Stable Preadaptation to Social Life, Behaviour, 71, pp. 203-245 (1979).
• Dawkins, R. & Brockmann, H. J. Do digger wasps commit the Concorde fallacy? Animal Behaviour 28, 892-896. (1980)
• Oliver R. Goodenough & Dawkins, The "St Jude" mind virus. Nature, Vol.371, No.6492, pp.23-24 (1994)