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Castillo-Davis suggested that it was important to learn about evolution from an early age, since it is the scaffolding on which you can hang a lot of facts in biology. Dawkins replied,

   When I learned biology, I learned evolution sort of last. I mean, I suppose I learned first of all about cells and cellular chemistry and things like that. How on earth can you appreciate cells and cellular chemistry without knowing what it’s all for? How can you even begin to learn biology without starting off with what it’s all for, where it all comes from? So I want to turn the textbook order in which biology is taught where very often evolution is left for the last chapter, and make it the first chapter. And teach it young!

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