Topics Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (9 papers) Plant and animal studies (7 papers) Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior (5 papers) Overview Impact Standout Papers Peers Geography Research Space Co-Authors Works Hit Papers The Selfish Gene 1976 2026 1992 2009 1976 1982 1979 1989 1983 2.0k 4.0k 6.0k Peers Richard Dawkins
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Sociology and Political Science 5.1k Genetics 3.0k Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics 2.9k Experimental and Cognitive Psychology 2.1k Social Psychology 1.7k Richard C Lewontin United States
Stephen Jay Gould United States
Marcus W. Feldman United States
Peter J. Richerson United States
James R. Griesemer United States
Edward O. Wilson United States
Elliott Sober United States
Robert Trivers United States
David Sloan Wilson United States
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All Works Load more (20 of 75) # Work Indexed citations 1 1 2 The Extended Selfish Gene
2 3 A Devil's Chaplain Selected Essays
12 4 2 5 1 6 The evolution of sex
4 7 12 8 A Darwinian view of life : selections from "River out of Eden"
1 9 The blind watchmaker : why the evidence of evolution reveals a universe without design
1996 · CERN Document Server (European Organization for Nuclear Research) · Richard Dawkins 440 10 1995 · Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences · Richard Dawkins 4 11 11 12 0 13 Der blinde Uhrmacher : ein neues Plädoyer für den Darwinismus
1 14 The selfish gene / Richard Dawkins
3 15 40 16 11 17 The extended phenotype : the gene as the unit of selection
breakdown → 1983 · CERN Document Server (European Organization for Nuclear Research) · Richard Dawkins 567 18 68 19 1978 · Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews · (unknown) , Richard Dawkins 1 20 1966 · Oxford University Research Archive (ORA) (University of Oxford) · Richard Dawkins 2
Load more (20 of 75) About Richard Dawkins Richard Dawkins is a scholar working on History and Philosophy of Science , General Decision Sciences and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics , having authored 75 papers that have together received 14.6k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (9 papers), Plant and animal studies (7 papers) and Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior (5 papers). The work is most often cited by research in History and Philosophy of Science (1.2k citations), Experimental and Cognitive Psychology (2.1k citations) and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics (2.9k citations). Richard Dawkins has collaborated with scholars based in United Kingdom , United States and Australia . Frequent co-authors include John R. Krebs , Fred W. Allendorf , Mark Ridley , Daniel C. Dennett , H. Jane Brockmann , James N. Smith , Noel T. Boaz , Alan Grafen , Stephen Jay Gould and Michel Treisman . Their work appears in journals such as Nature , Science and Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews .
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