
20a. Genius Explained [Darwin, Stephenson & Faraday] by Michael Howe
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Charles Darwin's Life Story
Charles Darwin went to Edinburgh at age 16 and studied medicine. He had increasing doubts about medicine it wasn't something that he was really excited about in the first place anyway. After a while towards the end of the year he wrote back to his family to say I don't think I'm going to go with this medicine stuff, says Charles's father RobertDarwin. take a five-year trip on the HMS Beagle bear in mind one of the reasons that Robert Darwin Charles's dad didn't realize that by this time Charles was a great scientist because he never told anyone Charles' achievements.
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