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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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HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_025511 - HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_025513
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
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_025537 →y, zoology, physics and computer science. Richard Dawkins, Walter Isaacson, David Mossberg and David Malan
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_025537 →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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HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_025147 - HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_025162
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 mentionsHOUSE_OVERSIGHT_015675 - HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016110
Apr 28, 2015Source: House Oversight Committee
a creator. Recently there have been two widely publicized attacks on religious belief from the scientific community: the head-on attack from Richard Dawkins in The God Delusion or, the hard hitting sideswipe by Stephen Hawking in The Universe in a Nutshell. Hawking made the front pages in 2000 with the s
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016035 →the Universe must be non-decryptable. HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016027 --- PAGE BREAK --- THERE’S PROBABLY NO GoD. NOW STOP WORRYING AND ENJOY YOURI LIFE Richard Dawkins and the Atheist Tour Bus “God exists, if only in the form of a meme with high survival value, or infective power, in the environment provided by hum
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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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Brockman_DeepThinking.MS
2 mentionsHOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016804 - HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016995
Source: House Oversight Committee
nd religion occupy two separate realms.” This 166 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016969 --- PAGE BREAK --- division has been critiqued by evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins, myself, and others. We can discuss “should” if framed as “we should do X in order to achieve Y.” Which Y should be a high priority is not necessaril
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ly involved in manipulating these patterns, using artificial selection to alter the size, shape, coloration, and lifespan of plants and animals. The Darwins of today continue this tradition, but with new tools, informed by understanding of the genetic code and aided by technical developments in engineerin
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_012766 →y wanted to lure in an innocent victim for robbery send a seductive smile? This line of questioning, developed by the British evolutionary biologists Richard Dawkins and John Krebs, led to a number of studies showing that animals are engaged in a much more complicated and dynamic dance when they compete. Static pr
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_012781 →BeliefInUnseenPowers_Book
2 mentionsHOUSE_OVERSIGHT_021247 - HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_021398
Source: House Oversight Committee
selection within groups. He further suggested that group selection is nearly always weak, so that group-related adaptations do not exist (3). Richard Dawkins (/) popularized the notion that traits which evolve are adaptive at the gene level through his use of the metaphor of the selfish gene. Genes serve t
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_021266 →PAGE BREAK --- From Inclusive Fitness to Spiritual Striving The notion of “selfish genes” (and, by extension, selfish organisms) was popularized in Richard Dawkins’ 1976 book by that title. Not long afterwards, an article appeared in Science that presented evidence that the most vicious members of a warlike tribe
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HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_021408 - HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_021415
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
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
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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Brockman_DeepThinking.MS
2 mentionsHOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016221 - HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016412
Source: House Oversight Committee
been critiqued by evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins, myself, and others. We can discuss “should” if f
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016387 →nd religion occupy two separate realms.” This 166 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016386 --- PAGE BREAK --- division has been critiqued by evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins, myself, and others. We can discuss “should” if framed as “we should do X in order to achieve Y.” Which Y should be a high priority is not necessaril
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016387 →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
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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HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_023198 - HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_023200
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
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.....
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Poetry in America for Teachers II.docx
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
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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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