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The Evolution Of Charles Darwin

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From: The Washington Post
Date: 19910414
Author:Matt Schudel

CHARLES DARWIN

A Biography

By John Bowlby

Norton. 544 pp. $24.95

FIRST HE abandoned his medical education. Then he showed no interest in joining the clergy. Young Charles Darwin, his father feared, was wasting his life. He seemed content simply to wander the hills, collecting plants and bugs.

But greatness sometimes springs from unlikely quarters, and in this new biography the late John Bowlby traces the evolution of the man who turned science and religion upside down. Bowlby, a British psychologist who died after finishing this book, takes an admittedly narrow view of Darwin's life, ...

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