Dawkins introduced the concept that phenotypic effects of a gene and not limited to an organism’s body and can stretch into the environment which includes the bodies of other organisms. He presented this concept in his 1982 book the Extended Phenotype. He is an atheist and a patron of the British Humanist Association. Dawkins has criticized creationism and intelligent design and argued against the watchmaker analogy in his 1986 book The Blind Watchmaker. His 2006 book The God Delusion has sold over three million copies. Dawkins founded the Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science. He has also been a part of several documentary films. In 2017 Richard released the book “Science in the Soul: Selected Writings of a Passionate Rationalist.
