An Appetite for Wonder: The Making of a Scientist

This book is the second part of the autobiography of biologist, thinker, and science popularizer Richard Dawkins. It tells of Dawkins’s professional path as an already established scientist, describes his meetings with major researchers and the work on the scientific works that made him famous, and also shows the evolution of his views on the interaction between science, culture, and religion. A significant portion of the book is devoted to how Dawkins arrived at his best-known ideas, such as the concepts of the meme and the extended phenotype.