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Article: The human face of Darwin
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- The Northern Echo
- Article date:
- September 18, 2009
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Charles Darwin's idea that we're descended from apes is still
being hotly debated. Steve Pratt meets his great-great-grandson,
Randal Keynes, who reveals the untold story of his ancestor's family
life
RANDAL KEYNES first realised he was related to someone famous - a
man who appears on our banknotes, no less - when he was a schoolboy.
"Friends joked that I was descended from a monkey, " he recalls.
Mystified, he asked his brother the reason behind the name-
calling. "He told me our greatgreat-grandfather had written a book
that suggested we were all descended from monkeys and I became aware
there was this figure in our family's past who was famous."
In the year that well-known relative ...