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Richard Dawkins
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English ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author (born 1941)
Richard Dawkins appears 71 times across 40 documents in the Epstein files, but the mentions are predominantly references to his scientific work in books and academic papers found in the collection, rather than personal correspondence or direct involvement with Epstein.
The vast majority of mentions are citations of Dawkins' evolutionary biology research and concepts like the "selfish gene" in academic texts and books about science, philosophy, and evolution. Several documents reference his books "The God Delusion" and "The Selfish Gene." There are specific mentions of Dawkins attending a convention dinner with Epstein and others, documented in what appears to be a statement or testimony about an incident involving a student volunteer. One document lists him alongside actress Andie MacDowell for a planned science documentary series.
Key Highlights
- •Most references are academic citations in books/papers about evolution, game theory, and religion found in Epstein's document collection
- •Documents HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_021408, 021416, and 021425 describe a specific incident at a convention where Dawkins and Epstein had dinner with a student and volunteers
- •Document HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_023121 lists Dawkins as participating in a documentary series episode with Andie MacDowell
- •The mentions span scientific texts on evolutionary biology, prisoner's dilemma theory, religion debates, and meme theory
- •No evidence of direct correspondence between Dawkins and Epstein in the snippets shown
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2 mentionsSource: House Oversight Committee
Susan Howe, kids from Nantucket High School, kids from Brookline High School, Alfre Woodard, Jane Pickering, Jay Parini, Ray Dalio, Leon Wieseltier, Richard Dawkins and others; and footage shot in Harlem, Greenwich Village, midtown, Chicago, London (if I have the money to hire a crew there; don't now ), at museum
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_028884 →, Jay Parini, Ray Dalio, Leon Wieseltier, Richard Dawkins and others; and footage shot in Harlem, Greenwich
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2 mentionsSource: House Oversight Committee
Healing, which I'll send you, but it's almost now quaint with all that we know of now. But I used that word which annoyed a lot of people, including Richard Dawkins, who ridiculed me, and I said, "Listen, I'm using it as a metaphor." All science, I was saying, was a metaphor anyway, but it was then that I also go
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_029513 →which annoyed a lot of people, including Richard Dawkins, who ridiculed me, and I said, "Listen, I'm using
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2 mentionsSource: House Oversight Committee
was attending, and hoped to convince you to come and speak. You initially seemed enthusiastic. ° During the convention, attendees including you and Richard Dawkins went for dinner with the student and volunteers for Dawkins’ foundation. ° Afterwards, the student invited you to join the volunteers for a drink.
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_021413 →tially seemed enthusiastic. ° During the convention, attendees including you and Richard Dawkins went for dinner with the student and volunteers for Dawkins’ foundation. ° Afterwards, the student invited you to join the volunteers for a drink. ° You asked her to come get you in your hotel room. She was
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2 mentionsSource: House Oversight Committee
Susan Howe, kids from Nantucket High School, kids from Brookline High School, Alfre Woodard, Jane Pickering, Jay Parini, Ray Dalio, Leon Wieseltier, Richard Dawkins and others; and footage shot in Harlem, Greenwich Village, midtown, Chicago, London (if I have the money to hire a crew there; don't now ), at museum
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_028882 →, Jay Parini, Ray Dalio, Leon Wieseltier, Richard Dawkins and others; and footage shot in Harlem, Greenwich
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2 mentionsSource: House Oversight Committee
was attending, and hoped to convince you to come and speak. You initially seemed enthusiastic. ° During the convention, attendees including you and Richard Dawkins went for dinner with the student and volunteers for Dawkins’ foundation. ° Afterwards, the student invited you to join the volunteers for a drink.
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_021430 →tially seemed enthusiastic. ° During the convention, attendees including you and Richard Dawkins went for dinner with the student and volunteers for Dawkins’ foundation. ° Afterwards, the student invited you to join the volunteers for a drink. ° You asked her to come get you in your hotel room. She was
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2 mentionsSource: House Oversight Committee
Susan Howe, kids from Nantucket High School, kids from Brookline High School, Alfre Woodard, Jane Pickering, Jay Parini, Ray Dalio, Leon Wieseltier, Richard Dawkins and others; and footage shot in Harlem, Greenwich Village, midtown, Chicago, London (if I have the money to hire a crew there; don't now ), at museum
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_029221 →, Jay Parini, Ray Dalio, Leon Wieseltier, Richard Dawkins and others; and footage shot in Harlem, Greenwich
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Strange Bedfellows.docx
2 mentionsHOUSE_OVERSIGHT_023121 - HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_023122
Apr 21, 2018Source: House Oversight Committee
t/psychologist Danny Kahneman. 11. Actor/writer Stephen Fry and Psychologist Robert Sapolsky 12. Actress Andie Macdowell and Evolutionary Biologist Richard Dawkins The series will bring together Krauss and the directorial team that produced the Feature Documentary The Unbelievers. Each episode will be shot in a
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2 mentionsHOUSE_OVERSIGHT_023123 - HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_023124
Apr 21, 2018Source: House Oversight Committee
ndie Macdowell and Evolutionary Biologist Richard Dawkins The series will bring together Krauss and the di
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_023123 →st/psychologist Danny Kahneman. 11. Actor/writer Stephen Fry and Psychologist Robert Sapolsky 12. Actress Andie Macdowell and Evolutionary Biologist Richard Dawkins The series will bring together Krauss and the directorial team that produced the Feature Documentary The Unbelievers. Each episode will be shot in a
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2 mentionsSource: House Oversight Committee
tially seemed enthusiastic. ° During the convention, attendees including you and Richard Dawkins went for dinner with the student and volunteers for Dawkins’ foundation. ° Afterwards, the student invited you to join the volunteers for a drink. ° You asked her to come get you in your hotel room. She was
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_021421 →was attending, and hoped to convince you to come and speak. You initially seemed enthusiastic. ° During the convention, attendees including you and Richard Dawkins went for dinner with the student and volunteers for Dawkins’ foundation. ° Afterwards, the student invited you to join the volunteers for a drink.
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2 mentionsSource: House Oversight Committee
f the NYC schools, Joel Klein In other categories I have taped Frank Gehry, architect Katie Couric , David Brooks and Andrea Mitchell, journalists Richard Dawkins and Peter Gallison, scientists Head of the College Board, David Coleman Dean of Harvard Law School, Martha Minow plus several poets laureate.....
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2 mentionsSource: House Oversight Committee
f the NYC schools, Joel Klein In other categories I have taped Frank Gehry, architect Katie Couric , David Brooks and Andrea Mitchell, journalists Richard Dawkins and Peter Gallison, scientists Head of the College Board, David Coleman Dean of Harvard Law School, Martha Minow plus several poets laureate.....
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_023205 →d Brooks and Andrea Mitchell, journalists Richard Dawkins and Peter Gallison, scientists Head of the Colle
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2 mentionsHOUSE_OVERSIGHT_023416 - HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_023417
Sep 13, 2014Source: House Oversight Committee
History) Future planned conversations include: Conversation with Walt Mossberg and David Malan on computer “language” and poetry ; Conversation with Richard Dawkins on evolution and probability; Conversation with actor Harrison Ford on “The Fish”; Conversation with Poet Laureate Robert Hass on Ansel Adams photogr
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_023416 →“language” and poetry ; Conversation with Richard Dawkins on evolution and probability; Conversation with a
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Poetry in America for Teachers II.docx
2 mentionsHOUSE_OVERSIGHT_023452 - HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_023453
Sep 23, 2014Source: House Oversight Committee
h Martin Espada and other New Yorkers (footage shot on the East River) on Whitman and urban greenspace and with Susan Howe on Stevens and parks with Richard Dawkins on Frost, evolution and probability and with Jay Parini, Frost biographer, in Frost’s cabin on “The Road not Taken”. with Director of the College Bo
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2 mentionsSource: House Oversight Committee
New Yorker. Brockman, Inc. Frankfurt 2016 Hotlist -3- HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_025149 --- PAGE BREAK --- SCIENCE IN THE SOUL Selected Shorter Writings By Richard Dawkins, Edited by Gillian Somerscales [UK — Transworld; Manuscript; Pub Date: June 2017; 110,000 words] A new book from Richard Dawkins, internationally be
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_025150 →re potent, pithy, thought provoking and revealing windows into the world as he, himself, perceives it. Science in the Soul is a collection of some of Dawkins' best writing: articles and lectures, reflections and polemics, reviews, forewords, tributes or eulogies, both published and unpublished. From the i
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2 mentionsSource: House Oversight Committee
fields. INote that taped sessions already include economics, marine biology, astronomy, evolutionary biology, zoology, physics and computer science. Richard Dawkins, Walter Isaacson, David Mossberg and David Malan have all said yes to tapings. Footage for all the others is already shot and ready for post producti
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_025511 →y, zoology, physics and computer science. Richard Dawkins, Walter Isaacson, David Mossberg and David Malan
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2 mentionsSource: House Oversight Committee
fields. INote that taped sessions already include economics, marine biology, astronomy, evolutionary biology, zoology, physics and computer science. Richard Dawkins, Walter Isaacson, David Mossberg and David HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_025514 --- PAGE BREAK --- Malan have all said yes to tapings. Footage for all the other
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2 mentionsSource: House Oversight Committee
fields. INote that taped sessions already include economics, marine biology, astronomy, evolutionary biology, zoology, physics and computer science. Richard Dawkins, Walter Isaacson, David Mossberg and David Malan have all said yes to tapings. Footage for all the others is already shot and ready for post producti
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2 mentionsSource: House Oversight Committee
come and speak. You initially seemed enthusiastic. HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_026772 --- PAGE BREAK --- ° During the convention, attendees including you and Richard Dawkins went for dinner with the student and volunteers for Dawkins’ foundation. ° Afterwards, the student invited you to join the volunteers for a drink.
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2 mentionsSource: House Oversight Committee
d Brooks and Andrea Mitchell, journalists Richard Dawkins and Peter Gallison, scientists Head of the Colle
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_023198 →f the NYC schools, Joel Klein In other categories I have taped Frank Gehry, architect Katie Couric , David Brooks and Andrea Mitchell, journalists Richard Dawkins and Peter Gallison, scientists Head of the College Board, David Coleman Dean of Harvard Law School, Martha Minow plus several poets laureate.....
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2 mentionsSource: House Oversight Committee
she was attending, and hoped to convince you to come and speak. You initially seemed enthusiastic. During the convention, attendees including you and Richard Dawkins went for dinner with the student and volunteers for Dawkins' foundation. • Afterwards, the student invited you to join the volunteers for a drink. Yo
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_031236 →initially seemed enthusiastic. During the convention, attendees including you and Richard Dawkins went for dinner with the student and volunteers for Dawkins' foundation. • Afterwards, the student invited you to join the volunteers for a drink. You asked her to come get you in your hotel room. She was wary
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