{"id":285,"date":"2021-01-10T16:09:39","date_gmt":"2021-01-10T16:09:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/biopedia.co.uk\/?p=285"},"modified":"2022-04-23T11:38:49","modified_gmt":"2022-04-23T10:38:49","slug":"darwins-family-tree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biopedia.co.uk\/?p=285","title":{"rendered":"Darwin&#8217;s Family Tree"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>To commemorate the anniversary of Darwin&#8217;s birth (12th February), I&#8217;ve created a Darwin&#8217;s Day episode which discusses the illness of Darwin and his immediate family and what could have caused this. There&#8217;s a <a href=\"https:\/\/academic.oup.com\/biolinnean\/article\/121\/2\/458\/3039471\">2017 paper<\/a>, used as source material for the episode, which discusses this question. However, some of the relationships discussed (and indeed those not discussed) are hard to visualise. So, I&#8217;ve created a family tree of Charles Darwin to accompany the episode!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"724\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/biopedia.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Darwin-family-tree-1-724x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-292\" srcset=\"https:\/\/biopedia.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Darwin-family-tree-1-724x1024.jpg 724w, https:\/\/biopedia.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Darwin-family-tree-1-212x300.jpg 212w, https:\/\/biopedia.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Darwin-family-tree-1-768x1086.jpg 768w, https:\/\/biopedia.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Darwin-family-tree-1-1086x1536.jpg 1086w, https:\/\/biopedia.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Darwin-family-tree-1.jpg 1190w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 724px) 100vw, 724px\" \/><figcaption>A family tree of Charles Darwin! The information here is collated from various Wikipedia articles for the people on the tree, as well as a website called Famous Kin.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Due to the nature of this kind of information, most of my information for this tree is sourced from the Wikipedia pages of these individuals. However, there&#8217;s also a website called &#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/famouskin.com\/\">Famous Kin<\/a>&#8216; I found, which I used to discover the descent from Edward III shown on the tree.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ve also shown some (but not all) the descendants of Charles Darwin on this tree, such as the actor <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Skandar_Keynes\">Skandar Keynes<\/a>&#8211; who played Edmund Pevensie in &#8216;the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe&#8217;, the novelist <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Emma_Darwin_(novelist)\">Emma Darwin<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Erasmus_Darwin_IV\">Erasmus Darwin IV<\/a>, a soldier who was killed during the larger Battle of Ypres in 1915.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Accompanying the Darwin&#8217;s Day episode (released 12th February 2021), here&#8217;s a family tree I made for Charles Darwin, using information from Wikipedia and Famous Kin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8,43],"tags":[37,38],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biopedia.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biopedia.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biopedia.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biopedia.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biopedia.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=285"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/biopedia.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":296,"href":"https:\/\/biopedia.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285\/revisions\/296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biopedia.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biopedia.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biopedia.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}