| THESELFISHGENE | Book on evolution by Richard Dawkins (3,7,4) |
| GENE | The Selfish ___: Richard Dawkins" landmark book on evolution. (4) |
| ORIGIN | On the ___ of Species, work on evolution by Charles Darwin published in 1859 (6) |
| MEME | Word coined by Richard Dawkins for an idea or behaviour passed from one individual to another by non genetic means such as imitation (4) |
| SELFISHGENE | Book and concept of Richard Dawkins (7,4) |
| ATHEISM | Take on religion from Richard Dawkins? (7) |
| NAIROBI | Birthplace of evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins (7) |
| GODSEND | Has Richard Dawkins proclaimed it a welcome event? (7) |
| DNA | "___ just is. And we dance to its music": Richard Dawkins |
| RANDOM | "Natural selection is anything but ___": Richard Dawkins (6) |
| SCIENCE | "The poetry of reality," per Richard Dawkins |
| ATHEIST | Richard Dawkins, notably (7) |
| ATHEISTIC | Describing the theological outlook of Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens, for example (9) |
| REPLICATION | "In a universe of blind physical forces and genetic ____, some people are going to get hurt, [...] and you won't find any rhyme or reason in it, nor any justice" (Richard Dawkins) |
| APES | "We admit that we are like ___, but we seldom realise that we are ___": Richard Dawkins (4) |
| DARWIN | Naturalist whose findings collected on his five-year Beagle voyage formed the basis of his theory of evolution by natural selection (6) |
| ALFRED | _ Bussel Wallace formulated his theory of evolution by natural selection independently of, and before publication by, Darwin (6) |
| DARWINISM | Theory of evolution by natural selection (9) |
| LAMARCK | Don't have hosts spoil naturalist who wrote on evolution (7) |
| CHARLESDARWIN | English naturalist who formulated the theory of evolution by natural selection (7,6) |
