Sarah Darwin

Sarah Catherine Darwin

botanist

.

She is the daughter of George Erasmus Darwin, a metallurgist, and his wife Shuna (née Service). She has two older brothers; Robert George Darwin (born 1959) and the conservationist

George Howard Darwin (1845–1912), an astronomer, his son William Robert Darwin (1894–1970), a stockbroker and brother of the physicist Charles Galton Darwin, and his wife Sarah Monica (née Slingsby) were the parents of George Erasmus Darwin (1927-2017).^[2]

Darwin first visited the

Galapagos Islands in 1995 with her parents and brother Chris on holiday. She stayed behind to prepare botanical illustrations for a field guide to the Islands. She is an ambassador for the conservation charity Galapagos Conservation Trust.^[3]

She gained a BSc in Botany from

Reading University in 1999 and a PhD from University College London in 2009. Her PhD thesis was entitled The systematics and genetics of tomatoes on the Galápagos Islands. Her supervisors were Sandra Knapp, James Mallet and Ziheng Yang.^[4]

She has been married to German botanist

Museum für Naturkunde

in Berlin, since 2003, with whom she has two sons, Leo Erasmus Darwin Vogel (born 2003) and Josiah Algy Darwin Vogel (born 2005).

In 2005 the family, along with other descendants of Charles Darwin, including George Erasmus Darwin, and Chris Darwin were involved in counting the flowers at Down House.^[5]

She wrote a foreword for the 2009 book Galapagos: Preserving Darwin's Legacy by Tui de Roy.

In 2009, Darwin was reported in various media outlets as having "won" a "

The Origin of Species.^[6]^[7]

She appeared in the 2009–10

World Forum Convention Center in The Hague

on 18 November 2010, at which O'Hanlon was also a featured guest.