Noted biologist, author Richard Dawkins to speak at Rice University Oct. 10

World-renowned evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins will speak at Rice University Oct. 10. The talk, titled “The Magic of Reality: How We Know What’s Really True,” will begin at 7 p.m. in Stude Concert Hall in the Shepherd School of Music’s Alice Pratt Brown Hall. The lecture is free and open to the public.

	RICHARD DAWKINS

Dawkins was the Charles Simonyi Professor of the Public Understanding of Science at the University of Oxford until his retirement in 2008. To promote the values of education, science and critical thinking skills, he established The Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science, which has branches in both the United Kingdom and the United States. He also maintains a website, www.RichardDawkins.net.

Dawkins is the author of 11 books: “The Selfish Gene” (1976, second edition 1989), “The Extended Phenotype” (1982), “The Blind Watchmaker” (1986), “River Out of Eden” (1995), “Climbing Mount Improbable” (1996), “Unweaving the Rainbow” (1998), “A Devil’s Chaplain” (2003), “The Ancestor’s Tale” (2004), “The God Delusion” (2006), “The Greatest Show on Earth” (2009) and “The Magic of Reality” (2011). He will sign copies of his latest book after the lecture.

Dawkins’ lecture is sponsored by Rice’s HERE (Houston Enriches Rice Education) Project and The Institute for Humanist Studies.

For more information, go to http://here.rice.edu or call 713-348-5550.