Diary of work and life. Darwin Ch. R.

Autobiography Charles Darwin, for many years has been one of the most important sources for all authors of numerous biographies of a brilliant scientist. This text is the processing of Darwin’s “memoirs”, abbreviated and prepared for the press, his son Francis: places that were not related to the events of the life and scientific work of his great father were excluded from the text. The section on the attitude of Darwin to religion, which seemed too frank for the Victorian era, also went under the knife.

In this edition, the reader is offered to the reader’s attention - according to the drafts, restored, sub -translated and commented on by the biology historian S. L. Sobol - Memories of a biologist and traveler, as well as his diary. This is a charming, sincere story of the famous student of the oldest English universities, who, thanks to the sea trip on the Bigl ship, has not chosen a priest’s career, but made discoveries that became the foundation of the modern theory of evolution and biological science.

“Apparently, in the variability of living beings and in the action of natural selection no more than a deliberate plan than in the direction in which the wind blows. Everything in nature is the result of solid laws. ”

- C. Darwin