Charles Darwin really did nearly become a vicar. The rest of the strip is anachronistic. In 1822 Mary Ann Mantell finds the teeth of one of the first officially recognized dinosaurs (the Iguanodon) in stones meant for a road in Cuckfield (Sussex, England) and it will only be in the late 19th century that the first T-Rex fossils will be discovered, in the United States, so long after Charlie’s childhood. But we just wanted to talk T. rex so badly..
When I left the school I was for my age neither high nor low in it; and I believe that I was considered by all my masters and by my Father as a very ordinary boy, rather below the common standard in intellect. To my deep mortification my father once said to me, "You care for nothing but shooting, dogs, and rat-catching, and you will be a disgrace to yourself and all your family ".
Charles Darwin, The autobiography.
After years of searching , months of reading archives, days spent interviewing witnesses from that period and hours devoted to drinking draught beers , PiTer, Michnik and James finally deliver the one and only totally-improbable-and-utterly-uncertain definitive biography of the childhood of the man who revolutionised our vision of nature.
Here is Little Darwin…
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