Charles Darwin's Autobiography
Subtitle: with his notes and letters depicting the growth of the Origin of species
By: edited by Sir Francis Darwin. And an introductory essay, The meaning of Darwin, by George Gaylord Simpson.
Contributors: Darwin, Francis, Sir, 1848-1925.
Series: The Life of science library
Publisher: Schuman
Published: 1950
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 266
Subjects: Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882.
Description: What sort of man was this revolutionary thinker? Just what did he do? What do his achievements mean to us and what consequences have they had for our own world? Darwin himself could not anticipate the answer to the last of these three questions. His autobiography is the best single source of answers to the first two. It must be true that no one can adequately judge his own character, but in these pages Darwin, the objective scientist, comes unusually near to a truly dispassionate estimate of himself. - p. 2.