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Lyrics from ‘A Song of Reproduction’ reprinted by permission of the Estates of Michael Flanders & Donald Swann 2013. Any use of Flanders & Swann material, large or small, should be referred to the Estates at [e-mail].

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Extract from ‘Selective Neurone Death as a Possible Memory Mechanism’ by Richard Dawkins, first published in Nature (Nature Publishing Group), 8 January 1971.

Extract from Richard Dawkins’ Foreword to John Maynard Smith, The Theory of Evolution (Cambridge University Press, 1993).

Extracts from Preface, chapter 1 and chapter 13 of The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins (1976). Reprinted by permission of Oxford University Press.

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All photos come from the Dawkins family collection (thanks to Sarah Kettlewell) except where otherwise acknowledged. Every effort has been made to trace copyright holders, but any who have been overlooked are invited to get in touch with the publishers.

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Cerura vinula: photo courtesy of N. Tinbergen.

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St. Mary’s Church, Chipping Norton: photo courtesy Nicholas Kettlewell.

Clinton Edward Dawkins (1880), Clinton George Evelyn Dawkins (1902), Clinton John Dawkins (1934), Arthur Francis ‘Bill’ Dawkins (1935/6): photos courtesy Balliol College, Oxford.

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Emperor Swallowtail (Papilio ophidicephalus): © Ingo Arendt/Minden Pictures/Corbis.

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The Great Hall, Oundle School, Northamptonshire: © Graham Oliver/Alamy; Ioan Thormas, 1968: Oundle School Archive.

Niko Tinbergen painting hens’ eggs to resemble gulls’ eggs, c.1964: Time & Lift Pictures/Getty Images; Mike Cullen, 1979: Monash University Archives, photo Hervé Alleaume; the Surrey Puma hunt: photo courtesy Virginia Hopkinson; People’s Park demonstrators and the National Guard, Berkely, 19 May 1969: © Bettmann/Corbis; punting in Oxford: photo courtesy Lary Shaffer; Peter Medawar at University College, 26 November 1960: Getty Images.

RD and Ted Burk, November 1976: Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images; Danny Lehrman and Niko Tinbergen: photo courtesy Professor Colin Beer; Niko Tinbergen filming: courtesy Larry Shaffer.

William D. Hamilton and Robert Trivers, Harvard, 1978: photo courtesy Sarah B. Hrdy; Michael Rodgers: photo courtesy Nigel Parry; RD and George C. Williams: photo by Rae Silver courtesy John Brockman; John Maynard Smith: Corbin O’Grady Studio/Science Photo Library; The Selfish Gene: courtesy Keith Cullen.

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Семья Докинз была связана с окрестностями городка Чиппинг-Нортон с начала XVIII века, когда мой прапрапрапрапрадед член парламента Генри Докинз соорудил семейный мавзолей для “себя и своих наследников” (как гласит надпись на мемориальной табличке) в церкви Св. Марии.

                                                                                                 

На фоне написанного в 1774 году портрета его семьи кисти Бромптона в 1958 году в усадьбе Овер-Нортон-Хаус была сделана фотография нашей семьи (вверху). Мой дедушка Докинз, в розовом галстуке гребного клуба “Леандр”, сидит между своей женой Энид и невесткой Дианой. Перед ним сидит моя сестра Сара, а за ним, между мной и дядей Кольером, стоит дядя Билл. Мой отец стоит крайним слева. Моя мать сидит между Энид и женой Кольера Барбарой.

                                                         

Не стоит ли Зулейка Добсон среди зрителей на барже, принадлежащей Баллиол-колледжу, перед которой мой дедушка Клинтон Докинз (он наклонился вперед) и другие члены команды колледжа готовятся участвовать в соревновании по гребле?