some anons have recently expressed interest in having more book club threads, specifically works written by people within the higher levels of the global power structure. ive decided to contribute. today, i want to discuss the book the next million years by charles galton darwin. keep in mind, this is going to be an info dump and analysis thread with an abundance of text and contextual historical information. if thats not your thing then this thread isnt really for you. charles galton darwin was born on december 19, 1887 in cambridge, england. he was the son of sir george howard darwin and martha haskins du puy. continuing in his familys scientific tradition, his father worked as a prominent mathematician, geologist, and astronomer. george darwin went on to become an english barrister, a fellow of the royal society, a president of the royal astronomical society, and a knight commander of the most honourable order of the bath.  his mother was an american socialite descending from the pennsylvanian du poy family. she was elected to the cambridge ladies dining society, a university discussion group instrumental in the womens suffrage and educational movements.  more pertinently, he was the paternal grandson of charles robert darwin, the famed british biologist and father of evolutionary theory. sir francis galton, the founder of eugenics, was carefully selected as the young boys godfather. as half-cousins through their common grandparent, erasmus darwin, charles darwin and francis galton were related by blood. consequently, charles galton darwin derived his namesake from both his paternal grandfather and his familial godfather.  darwins youngest sister, margaret elizabeth darwin, married geoffrey keynes, a descendant of the prominent keynes bloodline. geoffrey was the brother of john maynard keynes, the famed english economist and founder of keynesian economics.
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