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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