• Question: You said that after you left school you wanted to be a vet and that didnt work out, when did you then realise that this was the career option for you?

    Asked by to Lewis on 17 Mar 2014. This question was also asked by .
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      Lewis Dean answered on 17 Mar 2014:

      I wanted to be a vet from the age of about 7 or 8 and when I went to university to study zoology I thought that I would study to be a vet after I had finished that degree.

      However, in the first couple of years at university (I did a four year course), I realised that there were some things that I thought were amazingly interesting and these were more about evolution than veterinary medicine.

      I don’t really think it was until I was in my final year at university that I really thought that I could be a scientist, though. Then I read a book called ‘Guns, Germs and Steel’ by a scientist called Jared Diamond, which is all about human evolution and our behaviour and culture, and I realised that this was what I wanted to research.

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