as prophet: speculating with imagination and reason, relating present and past to future; religion – its errors, its effects etc.; the glories and fascination of the living world, as epitomized by Galápagos; humour – in Dawkins' own work and his keen appreciation of it in others. - Richard Dawkins first catapulted to fame with his iconic work The Selfish Gene (1976) which he followed with a string of prestigious books, including The Blind Watchmaker, Climbing Mount Improbable, The God Delusion, a previous anthology, A Devil's Chaplain (2003), and two volumes of autobiography, An Appetite for Wonder (2013) and Brief Candle in the Dark (2015). He is a Fellow of both the Royal Society and the Royal Society of Literature and the recipient of numerous honours and awards. He remains a fellow of New College, Oxford. In 2013, Dawkins was voted the world’s top thinker in Prospect magazine’s poll of 10,000 readers from over 100 countries.