An Appetite for Wonder: The Making of a Scientist

Renowned evolutionary biologist and New York Times bestselling author Richard Dawkins recounts his childhood and intellectual development as a scientist in his memoirs. First translated into Ukrainian.

In his first book, The Selfish Gene (1976), Richard Dawkins proposed a completely new gene-centric view of evolution, which became an instant sensation and radically changed the way we think about biology, genes, and evolution, and sold more than a million copies. In 2006, Dawkins once again changed the cultural and intellectual landscape of the world—his instant New York Times bestseller The God Illusion became a scientific deconstruction of religion, sold more than two million copies worldwide, and became synonymous with ruthless skepticism and passionate scientific debates.

And now, almost half a century later, Richard Dawkins is ready to share the path of his evolution as a man and a thinker — from life in colonial Kenya to his intellectual awakening in Oxford. The autobiography "Desire for a Miracle" is a sincere and very touching story that pulls back the veil of the author's real life, in which love for science, discoveries, ideas and all living things became the highest meaning, which helped to break through nonsense to truly important truths.