arts entertainment Books. Scientist and author Richard Dawkins will visit Dallas in final U.S. tour The evolutionary biologist will appear at the Winspear Opera House on Sept. 4.

Richard Dawkins, founder of the Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science, promotes a book at the Seymour Centre on Dec. 4, 2014, in Sydney, Australia. (Don Arnold/Getty) By Mike Woodruff ...

Richard Dawkins, the ethologist, is widely known for two ideas encapsulated in the titles of his first two books: The Selfish Gene and The Extended Phenotype (1982).