Abstract
Randal Keynes, author of Annie's Box, is the great-great-grandson of Charles and Emma Darwin. Thus, he has direct access to family papers and other materials pertaining to the life of Charles Darwin. Some of these historical records are new to the public. He has drawn on these, and other contemporary writings, to reconstruct the Darwin family's daily life, and show how it contributed to Charles' thinking as he developed ideas about evolution, particularly human evolution.