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Autobiographies

by Charles Darwin

Paul Graham
Recommended by Paul Graham

Recommended by Paul Graham

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Collected in this edition is the early autobiographical fragment written by Charles Darwin in 1838 along with his official autobiography which was first published in 1887, five years after his death. His controversial theory of evolution, which asserted that all of life on earth descended from common ancestors through a process of natural selection...

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Paul Graham

Paul Graham

Co-founder of Y Combinator; essayist

@csallen I recently read Darwin's, and reread Trollope's and Gibbon's.

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