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'''Clinton Richard Dawkins''', [[Fellow of the Royal Society|FRS]], [[Royal Society of Literature|FRSL]] (born 26 March 1941), known as '''
Dawkins came to prominence with his 1976 book ''[[The Selfish Gene]]'', which popularised the [[gene-centered view of evolution]] and introduced the term ''[[meme]]''. In 1982 he introduced an influential concept into [[evolutionary biology]], presented in his book ''[[The Extended Phenotype]]'', that the [[phenotype|phenotypic]] effects of a gene are not necessarily limited to an organism's body, but can stretch far into the environment, including the bodies of other organisms.<ref name="esf">{{cite web|url=http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090119081333.htm |title=European Evolutionary Biologists Rally Behind Richard Dawkins' Extended Phenotype |publisher=Sciencedaily.com |date=20 January 2009 |accessdate=2011-06-28}}</ref>
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