Resplendent this year in a striped blue suit and gleaming tie that seemed relatively discreet by his standards, Tamura revealed that he had come straight from the Diet (Japan’s parliament) where the ...

Few living thinkers have been as influential—or controversial—as Richard Dawkins. An evolutionary biologist by training, Dawkins rose to prominence with his 1976 book The Selfish Gene, which ...

Richard Dawkins will explore of the science of genetics and the story of evolution when he takes to the stage in Nottingham in June.