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Title; Contents; Note by Francis Darwin; Recollections of the Development of My Mind and Character; Cambridge 1828-1831; Voyage of the "Beagle" from December 27, 1831, to October 2, 1836; From My Return to England, October 2, 1836, to My Marriage, January 29, 1839; From My Marriage, January 29, 1839, and Residence in Upper Gower Street; Residence at Down from September 14, 1842, to the Present Time, 1876; My Several Publications; Written May 1st, 1881.
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Charles Darwin is the English naturalist whose work laid the foundation for evolutionary biology and theory. Darwin wrote his autobiography under the title Recollections of the Development of my Mind and Character in 1876. He wrote it for his family, but his son edited and published the autobiography five years after Darwin's death in 1882, removing some of the critical passages about God and Christianity.