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Nonfiction · 1887

The Autobiography of Charles Darwin

Charles Darwin

Reading time
about 1.5 h
Length
22,666 words · 87 pages
Structure
4 chapters · 1 front-matter section
Language
English
Era
Victorian

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Contents

  1. Introductory
  2. Cambridge 1828–1831
  3. Residence at Down from September 14, 1842, to the Present Time, 1876
  4. My Several Publications
  5. Written May 1st, 1881

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Charles Darwin

1809–1882 · Victorian

Charles Darwin (1809–1882) was born in Shrewsbury, studied medicine at Edinburgh and for the Church at Cambridge, and sailed as naturalist on HMS Beagle from 1831 to 1836. The theory of natural selection took shape in his notebooks from 1837; he published it in On the Origin of Species in 1859, after Alfred Russel Wallace arrived at the same idea, and developed it in The Descent of Man (1871) and later works. He lived and worked at Down House in Kent for forty years.

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