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An Appetite For Wonder is a look into the situations that brought out the scientist in Richard Dawkins from his youth and nurtured him to take up studying Biology at college. Summary of the Book Born into a family of scientists, Richard Dawkins was destined to be a biologist. In his own words he selects stories from his childhood and college years, revealing how he struggled against close-minded teachers, embracing atheism early in his teenage. His continuous companion was his scientific mind, hungry with the need for knowledge about how our race came to be in this world. Witty and humorous throughout, this is the story of a man who has explained mankind's existence the best in recent times. About Richard Dawkins Richard Dawkins is an English evolutionary biologist, ethologist and writer. He is well known for his books: The God Delusion, The Greatest Story Ever Told, The Selfish Gene, The Blind Watchmaker and The Extended Genotype. He graduated from Balliol College, Oxford, where he continued to complete his MA and D.Phil.