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A dual intellectual biography of Charles Darwin and Thomas Huxley, this book written in the certainty nearly 100 years after The Origin of Species that evolution by natural selection was such established theory that it would never be challenged is an enjoyable read if frequently lost in minute detail. Darwin is of course far more famous to our minds 60 years after this book appeared, but Huxley seems to have played a major role in the rapid spread of Darwinian principles in the 19th Century. I enjoyed the human foibles of each titanic intellect, though their racist and misogynist viewpoints (products of their times as they were) made for a handful of uncomfortable moments in the course of a long and thorough life story.
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