Dawkins, Richard: (1941- ) Biologist and Darwinian grinch, who introduced to evolutionary biology a metaphorical reductionism that made genes 'selfish', ideas 'contagious' (see memes), and God into a blind and mindless watchmaker, thus imbuing evolution with a selfish and meme-spiritedness it hasn't had since the olden days of social darwinism, and making the meaning of evolution as inspiring as death and taxes.
