Dawkins’ graduate research centered on understanding how animals make choices. Dawkins studied zoology at Balliol College, Oxford, and completed his graduate education under Nobel-prize winning ethologist Nikolaas Tinbergen, a pioneer in animal behavior research. However, Dawkins became a fervent atheist as a teenager, after he decided that evolution provided a more convincing explanation for the biodiversity of the natural world than religion did. As a child, Dawkins believed in God because he thought such a complex and diverse natural world must have been designed by a maker, a higher power or intelligence that created it. Dawkins was born on Main Nairobi, which was part of the colony of British Kenya at the time. Richard Dawkins is a British evolutionary biologist and ethologist, meaning he primarily studies animal behavior.
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