With The Selfish Gene, Richard Dawkins helped steer evolutionary science into the 21st century.

The God Delusion catapulted him to intellectual stardom and celebrity. Polemical in his attack upon religion as an explanation of his world, he is funny, outrageous, wise and enlightening—often simultaneously. He’s just written a new memoir—Brief Candle in the Dark—and is joined by “Radiolab’s” Robert Krulwich to look back on a lifetime of tireless intellectual adventure and engagement.

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