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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Born 26 March 1941, Dawkins built his career as an evolutionary biologist at Oxford, becoming emeritus fellow at New College and the first Simonyi Professor for the Public Understanding of Science from 1995 to 2008. The Selfish Gene in 1976 introduced the gene-centred view of evolution and coined "meme"; The Blind Watchmaker in 1986 explained how natural selection's cumulative, non-random process generates complexity from random variation. Climbing Mount Improbable in 1996, drawn from his Royal Institution Christmas Lectures, traced how evolution builds intricate adaptations through intermediate steps, and The Ancestor's Tale in 2004 — co-authored with Yan Wong — traced life's lineage back to its origin. Then The God Delusion in 2006 made him one of the "Four Horsemen of New Atheism" alongside Hitchens, Dennett, and Harris; The Sunday Times called it one of the 12 most influential books since World War II, and he founded the Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science that year. Two memoirs followed — An Appetite for Wonder in 2013, Brief Candle in the Dark in 2015 — and a string of honours including the 2005 Shakespeare Prize and the 2006 Lewis Thomas Pri