How Many Children Did Darwin Have
Darwin married and had 10 children with his first cousin Emma Wedgwood. Only seven children survived past age 10 and three of the survivors may have been infertile.

Did Charles Darwin lose a child?

Then the story took on an opera-like turn. The Darwins’ beloved oldest daughter, Annie, got sick. And she died just after turning 10. Darwin was so overcome with grief that he could not go to her burial, biographers have written.

Did Charles Darwin have inbred children?

The researchers traced 25 families among four generations of the Darwin-Wedgwood dynasty, which included a number of consanguineous marriages. … Darwin’s children had an inbreeding coefficient of 0.0630, meaning that there is a 6.3 percent chance that identical copies of a given gene will come from each parent.

Robert Thorne

Robert Thorne

Automotive & Future Transportation Editor

Robert Thorne covers electric vehicle innovations, autonomous driving systems, global mobility trends, and automotive engineering developments.

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