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    Charles Darwin

    Born in Shrewsbury on 12 February 1809, Charles Robert Darwin was an English


    naturalist, geologist, and biologist, widely known for his contributions to
    evolutionary biology.
    He was the fifth of six children of wealthy society doctor and financier Robert
    Darwin and Susannah Darwin. The eight-year-old Charles already had a taste
    for natural history and collecting when he joined the day school run by its
    preacher in 1817. Later, in 1825, Charles spent the summer as an apprentice
    doctor alongside his father, before going to the University of Edinburgh
    Medical School, where he neglected his studies. It is also a place where he
    found his passion for nature.
    In August 1831, he was proposed a place on HMS Beagle, a five-year lasting
    voyage around the coastline of
    South America. It established
    Darwin as an emminent whose
    observations supported Charles
    Lyell’s concept of gradual change.
    During this time, he also traveled to
    Galapagos, and noted that some
    species of animals have adapted to
    their environments which led to the
    creation of the theory of natural selection later in 1838. Also, the publishment
    of his journal he kept made him famous as a popular author.
    Darwin's work established evolutionary descent with modification as the
    dominant scientific explanation of diversification in nature. In 1871, he
    examined human evolution and sexual selection in The Descent of Man, and
    Selection in Relation to Sex, followed by The Expression of the Emotions in Man
    and Animals.
    Darwin published his theory of evolution with compelling evidence in his 1859
    book On the Origin of Species. By the 1870s, the scientific community and a
    majority of the educated public had accepted evolution as a fact. However,
    some still favoured different explanations while giving natural selection small
    importance. Still, he is described as one of the most influential people in history
    and even was honoured by burial in Westminster Abbey.

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