![]() He thought that 2009, the bicentennial of Darwin's birth and 150th anniversary of his book On the Origin of Species, was the perfect time for such a work. He started writing The Greatest Show on Earth during his final months as Charles Simonyi Professor for the Public Understanding of Science (Marcus du Sautoy now holds the position) and finished it in retirement. Dawkins believed that opposition to evolution was as strong as ever, despite the overwhelming, and growing, body of evidence for the theory. However, when he looked back at the work he had published, he felt that he had never comprehensively addressed the evidence of common descent. His documentary series The Genius of Charles Darwin looks at Darwin's life and some of the evidence for evolution. ![]() These he followed with three books that attempted to address common misunderstandings about evolution. beginning with The Selfish Gene (1976) and The Extended Phenotype (1982). ![]() ![]() Richard Dawkins has written a number of books about evolution. ![]() This book is my personal summary of the evidence that the 'theory' of evolution is actually a fact-as incontrovertible a fact as any in science. ![]()
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