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Article: GOOD STOCK DOESN'T MEAN GOOD BOOK, IN DARWIN PROGENY'S CASE.(Spotlight)(Review)
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- Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
- Article date:
- October 27, 2001
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Byline: Patti Thorn
Charles Darwin's great-great-grandson is suffering from an inferiority complex. While his great-great-grandfather represented the pinnacle of the family's gene pool, he writes, things have been slowly sliding into the muck ever since.
``First there was Charles Darwin, two yards long and nobody's fool,'' he writes in his new book - a quote printed inside the book jacket. ``Then there was his son, my great-grandfather, Sir Francis Darwin, an eminent botanist. Then came my grandmother Frances, a modest poet who spent a considerable amount of time in rest homes for depression. From her issued my beloved mother, Clare, who was extremely ...