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Article: The family man; On the eve of the release of a new film about Charles Darwin, Alison Jones meets his great-great-grandson.(Features)
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- The Birmingham Post (England)
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- September 17, 2009
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Byline: Alison Jones
"Iam a Darwin anorak, certainly," admits Randal Keynes, author of the book Annie's Box which forms the basis of a new film following Charles Darwin's emotional and physical struggle to complete his seminal work, On The Origin of Species - published 150 years ago.
Keynes has a far more personal interest than that of an impartial, if enthusiastic, researcher. He is the great-greatgrandson of the naturalist whose worldchanging discovery is credited with being 'the greatest idea in history'.
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