little Darwin

When I left the school I was for my age neither high nor low in it; and I believe that I was considered by all my masters and by my Father as a very ordinary boy, rather below the common standard in intellect. To my deep mortification my father once said to me, "You care for nothing but shooting, dogs, and rat-catching, and you will be a disgrace to yourself and all your family ". Charles Darwin, The autobiography. After years of searching , months of reading archives, days spent interviewing witnesses from that period and hours devoted to drinking draught beers , PiTer, Michnik and James finally deliver the one and only totally-improbable-and-utterly-uncertain definitive biography of the childhood of the man who revolutionised our vision of nature. Here is Little Darwin…