r/>Darwin chose to marry his cousin, Emma Wedgwood.
The Darwins had ten children. Charles was a devoted father and uncommonly attentive to his children. Whenever they fell ill, he feared that they might have inherited weaknesses from inbreeding due to the close family ties he shared with his wife and cousin, Emma Wedgwood. He examined this topic in his writings, contrasting it with the advantages of crossing amongst many organisms. Despite his fears, most of the children went on to have distinguished careers.
Adam Smith
Adam Smith was a great scientist who made extraordinary contributions in economics. Economist and key figure of the Scottish Enlightenment who was credited as the father of capitalism. His 1776 work, The Wealth of Nations, helped influence modern economics and offered one of the worlds first collected descriptions of what builds a nations wealth.
He was born in 1723 in Kirkcaldy, a small fishing town near Edinburgh, Scotland. His father was a customs officer. Shortly before Adam Smith was born, his father died, leaving just the mother raise him, but throughout Smiths life, he remained committed to his widowed mother, and never married.
Smith studied social philosophy at the University of Glasgow and at Balliol College in the University of Oxford, where he was one of the first students to benefit from scholarships.
At the age of 28 Adam Smith became a Professor of Logics at the University of Glasgow. It was his first academic appointment. Some time later he became a tutor to a wealthy Scottish duke. Then he received a grant of Pound300 a year. It was a very big sum, 10 times the average income at the time.
With the financial security of his grant, Smith devoted 10 years to writing his work which founded economic sci
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