Annie’s Box: Charles Darwin, his Daughter and Human Evolution - Softcover

Keynes, Randal

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1841156604 ISBN 13: 9781841156606

Verlag: Fourth Estate, 2001

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The story of the personal tragedy that lay behind Darwin’s revolutionary understanding of man’s place in nature.

Darwin’s eldest daughter Annie died when she was only ten years old. In the writing case are keepsakes of her life that cast precious light on Darwin’s work and on his love for his wife and children. Taking Annie’s story as his starting point Randal Keynes brings together science and humanity in a ground-breaking book that makes a major contribution to our understanding of Charles Darwin.

Randal Keynes, Darwin’s great-great-grandson and the current guardian of Annie’s box, conjures up a world in which great thinkers – including Carlyle, Babbage and George Eliot – were struggling with ideas that were to shake mankind to its core. At the forefront was Darwin himself, whose thinking about evolution and human nature was profoundly influenced by his life with his family, vividly pictured in this intimate portrait of the man and his private world.

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The box was Annie's treasured writing case, Annie was Charles and Emma Darwin's first daughter, and her death at the age of ten broke their hearts.

When Annie was a baby, Darwin doted on her, but he also watched her with his researches in mind, and thought about man's origins. as Annie grew into a lively child, Darwin worked secretly on his theory on evolution, but his ideas were just part of the family's life amid the wealth and poverty of Victorian England.

When Annie fell ill, Darwin was at her bedside every day and night but could not save her. The acute pain of her loss cast deep shadows over his thinking about the natural world and the struggle for life.

Randal Keynes, a great-great-grandson of Darwin, takes us into the family's private world and draws on a wealth of previously unseen material to tell Annie's story with rich and poignant detail. As Darwin's theories continue to shape so much of human nature, Annie's Box reveals the personal experience from which he drew his most deeply held ideas.

Science and humanity come together in this vivid portrait. Openeing Annie's Box, Randal gives us a fresh appreciation of Darwin's key insights about mankind.

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• Verlag: Fourth Estate
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2001
• ISBN 10: 1841156604
• ISBN 13: 9781841156606
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 320