An Appetite for Wonder CD: The Making of a Scientist

An Appetite for Wonder CD: The Making of a Scientist image
ISBN-10:

0062283553

ISBN-13:

9780062283559

Author(s): DAWKINS, Richard
Edition: Unabridged
Released: Sep 24, 2013
Publisher: HarperAudio
Format: Audio CD, 7 pages
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Description:

In his first memoir, Richard Dawkins shares a rare view into his early life, his intellectual awakening at Oxford, and his path to writing The Selfish Gene. He paints a vivid picture of his idyllic childhood in colonial Africa, and later at boarding school, where he began his career as a skeptic.

Arriving at Oxford in 1959, Dawkins began to study zoology and was introduced to some of the university's legendary mentors as well as its tutorial system. It's to this unique educational system that Dawkins credits his awakening. In 1973, provoked by the dominance of group selection theory and inspired by the work of William Hamilton, Robert Trivers, and John Maynard Smith, he began to write a book he called, jokingly, "my bestseller." It was, of course, The Selfish Gene.

This is an intimate memoir of the childhood and intellectual development of the evolutionary biologist and world-famous atheist and how he came to write what is widely held to be one of the most important books of the twentieth century.












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