Richard dawkins niko tinbergen biography

Richard Dawkins is the author of a number of internationally best-selling books about evolutionary biology including The Selfish Gene (; second edition, ), The Extended Phenotype (), The Blind Watchmaker (), River Out of Eden (), Climbing Mount Improbable (), and Unweaving the Rainbow ().

Dawkins was born in Kenya in and, although his father moved to England for a time to volunteer for wartime service, raised in East Africa until when the family relocated to England.

Between he worked as an undergraduate student of Zoology at Balliol College, Oxford, where he was greatly inspired by the Dutch biologist Niko Tinbergen.

Nikolaas "Niko" Tinbergen FRS was a Dutch biologist and ornithologist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Karl von Frisch and.

Niko Tinbergen entered my life as the lecturer on Molluscs.

Richard Dawkins assisted Tinbergen before becoming an assistant professor of zoology (–69) at the University of California, Berkeley.

RICHARD DAWKINS A conference with the title 'The Tinbergen Legacy' was held in Oxford on 20th March, Over of Niko Tinbergen's friends, family.

Between he worked as an undergraduate student of Zoology at Balliol College, Oxford, where he was greatly inspired by the Dutch biologist Niko Tinbergen.

Tinbergen, author of The Study of Instinct () was one of the first of the biologists who stove to explore and to explain the nature of animal behaviour. Such endeavours gave rise to a new branch of science - Ethology. (Niko Tinbergen was eventually awarded a share of a Nobel Prize in for his pioneering work on animal behaviour