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| | An Annotated Calendar of the Letters of Charles Darwin in the Library of the American Philosophical Society, American ... |
 | | The son of the physician Robert Darwin, Charles Darwin was blessed with a pair of illustrious grandfathers from the progressive elite of British Whiggery, the savant and proto-evolutionist, Erasmus Darwin, and the manufacturer of ceramics, Josiah Wedgwood. |
 | | Darwin's research during the 1840s and early 1850s included brushes with the evolutionist thought of the botanist J.D. Hooker, the cosmic Robert Chambers and others, and in 1842, he sketched out the rudiments of his theory, thinking enough of it to have it copied two years later. |
 | | Darwin was careful in his selection of informants; he always checked to be certain that each one was an expert in the subject about which he was inquiring. |
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