• The Sad Story of Darwin’s Self-Procleimed “Stupidest” Child

  • Apr 22 2025
  • Length: 19 mins
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The Sad Story of Darwin’s Self-Procleimed “Stupidest” Child

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  • Leonard Darwin had a lot to live up to. He was the son of the legendary Charles, and several siblings proved to be brilliant scientists as well. But Leonard never quite measured up as a mediocre military officer and two-bit politician. In his fifties, he pronounced his life a “failure.” But in his sixties, he finally found his calling—the dark pseudoscience of eugenics, a field he embraced in part to prove that he wasn’t the failure he imagined.

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