Dawkinsian

English Etymology From en Dawkins ian, after Richard Dawkins. Adjective Relating to the "selfish gene" view on evolution as proposed by Richard Dawkins. en Tony Solomonides; Les Levidow Compulsive Technology: Computers as Culture 1985 42 In an essay entitled 'Selfish Genes and Social Darwinism' (1983, p.366) she argues that 'sociobiological thinking, especially in its Dawkinsian form, actually reinforces Social Darwinism, both by its language and by some of its substance'. en 1993 Werner Callebaut Taking the Naturalistic Turn, Or How Real Philosophy of Science Is Done 162 In two papers, I argued that differential selection ought to favor more nearly decomposable or more quasi-independent phenotypes, so that the evolution of or selection for quasi-independence paradoxically meant that if a Williamsian or Dawkinsian genic selectionist picture is true, it is true because selection at higher levels produced it! en 2002 John Dupré Humans and Other Animals 162 It is not entirely clear how much the Dawkinsian perspective has to do with the issues of present concern. en 2006 Robin Attfield Creation, Evolution and Meaning 145 The suggestion that Rolston diverges from Darwinism could also be directed at Ward when he seeks to supplement Dawkinsian, gene-machine-like, accounts of evolution by reference to a guiding purpose. Stridently atheist, like Richard Dawkins. en 2010 Amarnath Amarasingam Religion and the New Atheism: A Critical Appraisal 121 two million people convinced and converted to Dawkinsian atheistic humanism. en 2012 Keith Allen The God Conclusion 54 From that moment, I became an atheist — but we still remained best friends (probably because neither of us tried to convert the other). Let me state right now that I was never Dawkinsian in either temperament or zeal. en eponyms en Evolutionary theory