“An Appetite for Wonder” is only the first half of Richard Dawkins’s projected two-volume memoir about his life in science. With typical unsentimental pragmatism, he notes that “the companion volume should follow in two years — if I am not carried off by the unpredictable equivalent of a sneeze.” No one will ever accuse this highly opinionated ethologist and evolutionary biologist, whose books include “The Selfish Gene” and “The God Delusion,” of a rosy attitude.
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