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Autobiographies

(Penguin Classics)

By Charles Darwin

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| Paperback | 9780140433906

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Self-taught and ambitious, Charles Darwin is most famous for his groundbreaking-and to some still controversial-theory of evolution and natural selection. In Autobiographies the great scientist weighs his career and his life.

Darwin's memoir concentrates on his public career and towering scContinue

Self-taught and ambitious, Charles Darwin is most famous for his groundbreaking-and to some still controversial-theory of evolution and natural selection. In Autobiographies the great scientist weighs his career and his life.

Darwin's memoir concentrates on his public career and towering scientific achievements but is also full of moments from his private life. There are lively anecdotes about his family and contemporaries, as well as haunting memories of a mother he never knew, a hot-tempered father he could never please, and lingering doubts about the fitness of the genes he was passing on to his heirs.

Autobiographies comprises a fragment Darwin wrote at the age of twenty-nine and the longer "Recollections" of 1876, showing a man toward the end of his life who stands isolated, dogged by illness and self-doubt.

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  • even better, however, is The Voyage of the Beagle, where the man really lets his wonder show at the worlds literally opening before him. Here, he tends to have the benefit of a bit of hindsight, and sometimes that's not such an advantage.

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