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  neo- 197, 268-9

  Universal 280

  Data Acquision System 209, 219

  Davison, Mr (piano teacher) 135

  Dawkins, Augusta (née Clinton; great-great-great-grandmother of RD) 4, 9

  Dawkins, Barbara 192

  Dawkins, Bill (Arthur Francis; uncle of RD) 10, 23, 24, 75-6, 115, 116

  at school 10-11, 92-3

  career 10, 11

  in Second World War 38

  death 11

  Dawkins, Sir Clinton Edward (great-great-uncle of RD) 6-7

  Dawkins, Clinton George Augustus (great-great-grandfather of RD) 6

  Dawkins, Clinton George Evelyn (‘Tony’; grandfather of RD)

  at Balliol 7-8, 11-12

  career 9-10

  in RD’s childhood 14, 54, 57

  in Africa 57-8

  Dawkins, [Henry] Colyear (uncle of RD) 8, 14, 20-1, 57

  birth 9-10

  at school 24

  career 10, 11, 191-2

  Dawkins, Revd Cuthbert 4, 289-90

  Dawkins, Enid (née Smythies; grandmother of RD) 10, 12, 54, 75

  in Africa 57-8

  Dawkins, Eve (née Barham; 2nd wife of RD) 164

  Dawkins, Henry (great-great-greatgrandfather of RD) 4-5, 9

  Dawkins, Henry, MP (great-great-great-great-grandfather of RD) 77

  Dawkins, Major Hereward 78-9

  Dawkins, James, MP 77

  Dawkins, Jean Mary Vyvyan (née Ladner; mother of RD)

  congratulated on birth of wrong baby 4

  family 15

  birth 21

  early life 22, 76

  marriage 29, 114

  travels to Africa 29, 73-4

  travels to Kenya 29-31

  in Africa in Second World War 29-36, 38-40

  in Africa after Second World War 43-53

  malaria 32-3, 79

  in RD’s childhood 38, 103, 114, 287

  visits England, 1946 53-5

  interests 24

  Dawkins, [Clinton] John (father of RD)

  name 3, 4

  birth 10

  education 22-5, 151, 167

  courtship 111, 167

  marriage 29, 114

  career 25, 29

  in Nyasaland 10, 29-31

  in Second World War 29-32, 38-40

  travels to Kenya 30-1

  postwar career 43

  as father 14, 48-9, 52, 56, 57, 59, 105, 115, 116, 143, 145, 287, 290, 293-4

  hobbies and interests 110-12, 128-9, 133, 167

  inheritance 77-9

  return to England, 1949 79-80

  as farmer 111-13

  90th birthday 92

  death 114

  funeral 9

  Dawkins, Juliet (daughter of RD) 164

  Dawkins, Lalla (née Ward; 3rd wife of RD) 134

  Dawkins, Marian (née Stamp; 1st wife of RD) 134, 175, 216, 225

  marriage 201

  research 201, 208-9, 210, 215, 216, 223, 224, 228, 232

  leaves Berkeley 215

  career, 199-200

  Dawkins, [Clinton] Richard

  ancestry 4-25

  birth 4, 40, 289

  childhood in Africa 13-14, 33-8, 40, 43-53, 55-60, 287, 293-4

  childhood in England 54-5, 80, 113-15

  childhood reading 15, 64, 88, 113-14

  schools: Eagle, Rhodesia 60, 63-9, 77, 80-1, 90; St Anne’s, Chelmsford 76-7; Chafyn Grove, Salisbury 81, 85-106, 109; Oundle, Northamptonshire 106, 119-45, 287

  at Balliol College, Oxford 145, 149-53, 162-5

  zoology studies 153, 154-62, 168, 261

  research 171-6: nurture or nature 179-94; computer use 218-39; hierarchical organization 243-55

  lectures 196-7, 199-201

  first marriage 201

  at University of California at Berkeley 205-10, 215

  at New College, Oxford 216-18, 261

  books: The Extended Phenotype 291; The God Delusion 87; The Greatest Show on Earth 160; River Out of Eden 11; Unweaving the Rainbow 131; see also Selfish Gene, The

  personality 291-4

  interests 13-14, 38, 55

  Dawkins, Sarah, later Kettlewell (sister of RD)

  childhood 33, 43, 55, 74, 75, 76, 114, 115

  Dawkins, Thomas (double cousin of RD) 76

  Dawkins, Col. William Gregory 78, 79

  ‘Dawkins Organ’ 219-21, 230, 231

  decision-making 224-8

  Delius, Juan 174, 175, 216

  Delius, Uta 174

  Dennett, Daniel 270, 280

  ‘deprivation experiment’ 177-8

  design 140-1

  dialects 15, 17-18

  dinosaurs 248-9

  DNA 67, 274, 284

  Dobzhansky, Theodosius 268

  dogs 223-4

  Douglas-Hamilton, Iain 175

  Dowson, Mr (teacher) 87, 89, 186, 234

  Dragon School, Oxford 63, 65, 67, 80-1

  Drive Threshold Model

  chicks 186-90, 209-10

  demonstration 195-6

  humans 190-1

  driving lessons 129

  dundridges 39-40

  Eagle School, Rhodesia 60, 63-9, 77, 80-1, 90

  Elliott, Sir Roger 276

  Elton, Charles 174

  empathy 97-8

  Empress of Scotland (ship) 53-4

  Errol, Lord 31

  ethology 176-8

  conferences: international, 1965, 195-6;

  Madingley, Cambridge, 1975, 243;

  Oxford 195

  evolution 17, 142

  bees 130-1

  game theory 273-5

  of language 17-18, 138

  laryngeal nerve 159-60

  neo-Darwinism 197, 268-9

  panglossism 259-62

  symbiotic cleaners 32

  see also natural selection

  evolutionary stable strategy (ESS) 274

  fagging 119-20, 125

  family

  kin selection, 197-8, 271

  position 115-16

  resemblances 5, 8, 10, 13-14, 91

  see also heredity; kin selection theory

  farming 111-13, 121, 167

  films 88, 137-8, 165

  First World War 21, 35

  Fischberg, Michael 153-4

  fish 5, 160, 180, 260

  empathy with 97-8

  guppies 249, 250, 251

  Fisher, Kenneth 131

  Fisher, R. A. 160, 197, 268

  Fixed Action Pattern (FAP) 223-9

  flies: self-grooming 229-31, 232

  food rationing 86

  Ford, E. B. 160

  foresight 260-2, 266-7

  see also predictions

  Franck, César: Symphonic Variations 50

  Galileo 162

  Galloway, Malcolm (headmaster) 85, 87-8, 91, 97, 99, 100, 102-4

  Galloway, Mrs 88-9

  game theory 32, 273-5

  Gates, Bill 195

  genes

  altruism 130-1, 198-9

  chromosomes 189

  decay of shared 5

  DNA 67, 274, 284

  family resemblances 10, 13-14

  interaction 160-1

  and natural selection 197-9, 260-5, 266-9, 277-9, 284

  propagation 278

  selfish 25, 199, 262-4, 266, 278

  survival 262-8, 270, 277

  see also memes

  genotype 264

  Global Atheist Convention 9

  Glynn, David 56-7, 58, 60, 63, 69

  Glynn, Dr 33, 56, 63

  goals 251-2, 255, 266-7

  Gondwanaland 56

  Goon Show (radio programme) 138

  Grafen, Alan 198

  grammar 244-6, 253

  computer 234-5, 238

  gramophone 48, 50

  Grazebrook’s Cottage, Mbagathi 33

  Gresham’s school, Norfolk 24

  groups 123-4, 266

  selection 261, 269

  survival 260-1, 268

  guppies 249, 250, 251<
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  Haldane, J. B. S. 197, 260, 268

  Halliday, Tim 175

  Hamilton, W. D. 197, 199, 265, 271, 274, 282-3

  Hamilton’s Rule 198-9, 270

  Hansell, Michael 175

  Harding, Gilbert 3

  Hardy, Sir Alister 194

  Hardy, G. H. 217

  Harlow, Harry 75

  Harp, Mr (music teacher) 76

  Harrow School 23-4

  Hayter, Sir William 216

  Helston, Cornwall 15, 18

  heredity 5, 8, 10, 11, 13-14, 91, 263

  hierarchical organization 232, 243-55

  animal behaviour 244-5, 246, 249-55

  and communication 247-9

  goals 251-2, 266-7

  grammar 244-6

  mathematical techniques 249-51

  Higham, Revd 103

  Hinde, Robert 176, 243, 255

  Hitchens, Christopher 9

  Hitler, Adolf 288, 289

  Hood, Bruce 99

  Hoppet, The (house) 22, 54-5, 75

  Horizon (TV series) 281

  Housman, A. E. 165, 166, 282-3

  Howard, Anthony 90

  human culture 279-80

  Huxley, Aldous 12, 289, 291

  Eyeless in Gaza 97

  Huxley, Elspeth: Red Strangers 35

  Huxley, Francis 282

  Huxley, Julian 268, 269

  Hydra 131-2, 133

  hymns 55-6, 64, 76

  school 109

  identity 98-9

  If (film) 137-8

  Impekoven, Monica 175, 190

  Imperial College of Tropical Agriculture 25

  India 11-12, 85, 154

  individuals, 5, 37, 123-4, 197, 259, 260, 262-3, 267-8

  information theory 20, 227

  ink 95-6

  insects, social 198-9

  see also ants; crickets

  instinct (innate behaviour) 176-7

  The Study of Instinct (Tinbergen) 176, 244

  integration 234

  internet 98, 159, 232

  Ireland 200-1

  Jackson, Jill 80

  Jackson, Mr (teacher) 101

  Jamieson, Ann 175

  Jones, Peter 281

  Journal of Theoretical Biology 196

  Jowett, Benjamin 7

  Keddie, Bob 75

  Keddie, Penny (cousin of RD) 75, 76

  Kenya 29, 30-1, 32, 34, 36

  Kettlewell, Dick 11, 114-15

  Kettlewell, Margaret 114

  Kettlewell, Michael 115-16

  Kikuyu 35

  Killingworth Castle pub, Wootton 164-5

  kin selection theory 197, 271

  King Solomon's Mines (book) 88

  King’s African Rifles (KAR) 29, 31-2

  Kipling, Rudyard

  ‘The Long Trail’ 121

  ‘Song of the Commissariat Camels’ 77

  Knight, Richard 144-5

  Krebs, John 175

  Kruuk, Hans 174

  Niko's Nature 171, 233

  Lack, David 174

  Ladner, Alan Wilfred ‘Bill’ (grandfather of RD) 18-19, 20, 21-2, 234

  in First World War 21

  Short Wave Wireless Communication 19-20

  Ladner, Diana (later Dawkins; aunt of RD) 22, 24, 75, 76, 116

  marriages 75

  Lake Nyasa 49, 50

  Land, Michael 208

  language

  Brythonic 15

  children 14, 39, 46-7; school slang 85

  coining 39

  computer see under computer programming

  Cornish 15-18

  of decisions 224-5

  dialects 15, 17-18

  evolution of 17-18

  grammar 234-5, 238, 244-6, 253

  ‘mere’, use of 161-2

  nicknames 65, 67, 138, 193

  predictability 229

  laryngeal nerve 159-60

  Leacock, Stephen 5

  lectures 154-6, 157

  RD’s 196, 199, 207-8

  note-taking 155-6

  Lehrman, Daniel S. 177-9, 215

  Leicester barracks 127

  Leston Taylor, Bert: poem by 248-9

  Letchworth, Henry Murray 86-7, 92, 100

  Lewontin, Richard 282

  lightning strike 58-9

  Likuni, Nyasaland 55, 56

  Lilongwe, Nyasaland 55, 56-7, 58-60, 63, 69

  hospital 33

  Ling, Peter (housemaster) 143-4

  linguistics 234, 253

  lions 36, 37-8

  Little Baddow, Essex 22, 29

  Locke, John 176

  Lodge, David: Changing Places 205, 206

  Lofting, Hugh: The Story of Doctor Dolittle 64-5, 80

  Loftus, Elizabeth 101

  Long, Miss (teacher) 90

  longevity 267

  Lorenz, Konrad 176, 177-9, 223

  On Aggression 261-2

  Lowndes, A. G. 24-5

  LSD 12

  Mackay, Ann 92

  MacRoberts, Michael and Barbara 208

  Madingley (Cambridge University Department of Zoology, subDepartment of Animal Behaviour) 176, 243

  1975 conference 243; RD’s paper at 243-4, 246, 251, 255

  Makwapala, Nyasaland 43-7

  malaria 32-3, 79

  Malawi see Nyasaland

  Manning, Aubrey 171, 195

  Marconi, Guglielmo 18

  Marconi College, Chelmsford 22

  Marconi Radio Company 18, 19, 21, 22

  Markov Chain 244, 246

  Marlborough College, Wiltshire 24, 105, 106, 287

  Marshall, John 253-5

  Martin, Miss (head teacher) 76

  Maschler, Tom 275

  Mash, Robert 174, 193

  Masque of Balliol, The 7

  mathematics 291-2

  game theory 32, 273-5

  school 95, 122

  Maynard Smith, John 197, 260, 270, 271-5, 281

  reviews The Selfish Gene 291-2

  The Theory of Evolution 272

  Mayr, Ernst 268, 269

  Mbagathi 33, 34-6

  McCarthy, Eugene 205, 215

  McClean, Dr and Mrs 32

  McFarland, David 174, 175, 233

  McFarland, Jill 174-5

  McLannahan, Heather 175

  Medawar, Peter B. 24, 184, 185, 269, 277, 282

  Melander, Prof. Björn 18

  meme 39, 67, 138, 278-80

  memory 222-3

  continuity 98-9

  triggers 86

  ‘mere’, use of 161-2

  metaphor 132, 266, 268

  Miller, Mr (director of music) 136-7

  Mills, Miss (teacher) 89

  Mills, Mr (teacher) 89

  Milne, Mrs (of nursery school) 60

  Modern Synthesis (neo-Darwinism) 197, 268-9

  Monod, Jacques 269

  moon craters 179-80

  moral Zeitgeist 87

  Morris, Desmond 171, 178, 195, 275-6

  paintings 280-1

  Morse code 92

  Mullion Cove, Cornwall 18, 19, 21, 51, 98

  Murdoch, Iris 12

  music 46, 56, 100, 101, 134, 211

  composers, orchestral preferences 191

  computer-generated 219-21, 231-2, 236-8

  gramophone 50, 141-2

  at school 130, 134-5

  lessons 90

  pitch 220

  in pub 164-5

  see also songs

  Nairobi 4, 31, 34, 35, 39

  National Service 151, 152

  natural history 13-14

  natural selection 161

  advance information 182-3

  dinosaurs 248

  and genes 197-9, 260-5, 266-9, 277-9, 284

  panglossism 259-62

  prey animals 180-1, 252

  see also evolution

  Nature (journal) 222-3

  neo-Darwinism 197, 268-9

  Nepal 11

  nested embedment 244-6

  neurones, death of 222-3

  New Co
llege, Oxford University 10, 100, 211, 215-19, 276, 283

  porters 149-50

  Senior Common Room Betting Book 217-18

  Warden election 275

  Newton, Sir Isaac 165

  Nichols, David 159

  nicknames 65, 67, 138, 193

  Noakes, David 208

  Nobel Prizes 150-1

  North, Tony 194, 195

  Norton-Griffiths, Michael 175

  Noyes, Alfred 140

  Nyapolos 44

  Nyasaland 10, 25, 29-31, 33, 36, 39-40, 43-51, 52, 55, 63, 79, 114-15

  bishops 217-18

  see also Lilongwe; Makwapala

  Nyasaland Battalion 29, 40

  Nyasaland Department of Agriculture 38, 43, 79, 114-15

  Nyeri training camp 31

  Observer (newspaper) 193

  Ogston, Sandy 153

  O’Hanlon, Redmond 12

  organic farming 112-13

  organisms 265, 267-8, 277

  ‘survival machine’ 262-3, 265-8, 270, 277

  Oundle Lecture (2002) 131

  Oundle School, Northamptonshire 106, 119-45, 287

  band 127

  Cadet Corps 125-6, 127

  chapel 136, 139-40

  choir 136-7

  Colloquium club 139

  fagging 119-20, 125

  houses 123-4

  music 130, 134-5

  new boys 124-5

  showers 138-9

  workshops 116, 128-9, 139

  Over Norton, Oxfordshire 77, 78, 79-80, 114

  Oxford 211, 266, 281, 290

  Dragon School 63, 65, 67, 80-1

  Martyrs’ Memorial 8

  river scene 7-8

  Rose and Crown pub 174

  Scala cinema 165

  Wychwood school 81

  Oxford University 11, 24, 25, 144, 150-1, 210-11, 216, 232, 287

  Botany Department 23

  computers 192-3, 193-4

  Forestry Department 11, 12, 13, 192

  tutorial system 157-9

  Wadham College 171-4

  see also Balliol College; New College;

  Zoology Department

  Oxford Tutorial, The 157

  Oxford University Press 276, 280

  Parental Investment 270-1, 274

  Parfit, Derek: Reasons and Persons 98-9

  Parker, Geoffrey 273

  pasteurizer 111

  Pataudi, ‘Tiger’ 154

  Patrick, C. E. S. 136, 137

  Patterson, Ian 174

  Payne, Donald 136

  Payne, ‘Flossie’ (teacher) 143

  penguins 260

  pheasants 267

  photography 110-11

  pigeons 253-4

  Pilgrim's Progress, The 144

  Pinker, Steven: The Better Angels of our Nature 87

  Plato 290

  poetry 46, 165, 282-3, 292

  Cornish dialect 16-17

  Housman 165, 166, 282-3

  Leston Taylor 248-9

  ‘To the Balliol Men Still in Africa’ 8-9

  Poldhu, Cornwall 18, 19

  Popper, Karl 184-7, 190

  populations 263, 274

  prayer, children’s 67-8, 77, 80

  Prayer Book 217, 218

  predictability 224-9, 289, 290