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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Ruse, Michael

Titel

Charles Darwin

Ist Teil von

• On Purpose, 2017, p.76

Ort / Verlag

United States: Princeton University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2017

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Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Charles darwin, grandson of Erasmus Darwin, came from a rich, upper-middle-class family.¹ His other grandfather, also the grandfather of his wife Emma, was Josiah Wedgwood, who founded the pottery works that to this day bears his name. Already this gives us major clues into the nature and achievements of the younger Darwin.² On the one hand, he was not about to repudiate his heritage. Why would he? On the other hand, his heritage was precisely that of British industry and political economy and more. The other set of major clues into the nature and achievements of the younger Darwin come