Lincoln and Darwin themes "applied to Lincoln and Darwin "together"", but praised "Lander's lucid, succinct, and up-to-date accounts of the topics that he deploys to illustrate his protagonists' involvement with his three main themes." Lincoln and Darwin Lincoln and Darwin: Shared Visions of Race, Science, and Religion is a 2010 book by James Lander about the lives and views of Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin. Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin were born on the same day, February 12, 1809. Both lost their mother at a young age and, despite their differences in upbringing, both men saw themselves as autodidacts. Lander argues that they
Henry Darwin Henry Darwin Henry Galton Darwin (6 November 1929 – 17 September 1992) was a British lawyer and diplomat specialising in international law. Darwin born in Edinburgh, the second son (of four) and third child (of five) of the physicist Sir Charles Galton Darwin and his wife Katharine Pember, a mathematician. He was a great-grandson of the naturalist Charles Darwin. In 1958 he married Jane Christie, an English teacher; they had three daughters: Darwin was called to the Bar at Lincoln's Inn in 1953. He served as assistant Legal Adviser to the Foreign Office 1954-1960 and again 1963-1967, at which time