Darwin, His Daughter, and Human Evolution - Randal Keynes (achter-achter-kleinzoon van Charles Darwin)
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In this intimate portrait of the great naturalist as devoted family man, Keynes describes how Charles Darwin's "life and his science were all of a piece." The great-great-grandson of the scientist, Keynes uses published documents as well as family papers and artifacts to show how Darwin's thinking on evolution was influenced by his deep attachment to his wife and children. In particular, his anguish over his 10-year-old daughter Annie's death sharpened his conviction that the operation of natural laws had nothing to do with divine intervention or morality. Keynes, also a descendant of economist John Maynard Keynes, shows that much of Darwin's intellectual struggle in writing On the Origin of Species and The Descent of Man arose from his efforts to understand the role of suffering and death in the natural order of the world. Early in his career, Darwin saw the indifference of natural law as an answer to the era's religious doubts about how a benevolent god could permit human misery; cruelty and pain, he argued...
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Original half cloth, dust jacket, illustrations in b/w, large 8vo. [Auteur: Keynes, Randal] [Pagina's: 384] [Taal: en] [Uitgever: New York : Riverhead Books] [Jaar: 2002] [Titel: Darwin, His Daughter and Human Evolution]
