Annie’s Box: Charles Darwin, his Daughter and Human Evolution - Softcover

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Randal Keynes is a great-great grandson of Charles Darwin . He lives and works in London.

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The story of the personal tragedy that lay behind Darwin's Revolutionary understanding of man's place in nature.

"There is more to this story – expertly conceived by Keynes – than the outlining of the vicissitudes of Victorian family life. The crucial point is that life and science were 'all of a piece' for Darwin. Annie's life may have been tragically short, but its impact – to say the least – has been long-lasting and profound."
ROBIN McKIE, 'Observer'

"Keynes shows elegantly and convincingly how Darwin's mature theory grew out of his intensely personal pain. His failure to find spiritual comfort after Annie's death strengthened and confirmed his trust in natural laws – evolutionary laws, later called the survival of the fittest."
LISA JARDINE, 'Sunday Times'

"This is an engrossing book, a biography with a difference."
ROSEMARY ASHTON, 'Sunday Telegraph'

"It is a rare biography that reveals the key emotional moment in its subject's personal and intellectual life so clearly as Randal Keynes does for Charles Darwin in 'Annie's Box.' Moving and illuminating."
CLIVE COOKSON, 'Financial Times'