Origin of Species (Oxford, 2008)

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oxford world? classics ON THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES Charles Darwin was born on 12 February 1809 to Robert Darwin, a highly successful doctor, and his wife Susannah Wedgwood, a member of the famous pottery family. His paternal grandfather was the free-thinking scientist and poet Erasmus Darwin, who was formulating evolutionary ideas at the end of the eighteenth century. Initially training as a medical student, then intending to become a clergyman, Darwin found his life and thinking profoundly altere…