CHARLES DARWIN

 

CHARLES DARWIN(1809 - 1882):

He was a Naturalist and Geologist.

He was born in the Mount, Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England on 12 February 1809. His father's name was Robert Darwin and Mother's name was Susannah Darwin. His father was a doctor and financier by profession, and mother was a physician.

He was the fifth of six children. He attained his basic education from September, 1818 at Anglican Shrewsbury school, before attending the University of Edinburgh Medical School. He first presented his discovery on March 27,1827,at the pinion where he argued that, the black spores found in oyster shells were in actuality the eggs of a skate leach. His lack of interesting Medical studies led his father to enroll him at the Christ's collage to attain a BA degree.

He despised mainstream education and showed a profound interest in booting. He graduated with a distinction, in 1831. In 1831  Darwin set sail an the HMS Beagle a naval Survey ship. Darwin was there to collect plant and animal specimens from the countries and Island the ship visited. The voyage took five years. For Charles Darwin, the most important part of the journey was the time spent in the Galapagos Island.

These island are the home to plants and animals that can't be found anywhere else in the world. Darwin noticed that each of the different type of tortoise. Darwin was married to his first causing Wedgewood in the year 1839, at the age of 29.

The couple had children. When the Beagle returned to England and Darwin began to study the specimens, he had collected in more detail.

He relished that the different in finances followed a similar pattern to those he observed in the tortoise.

The finches from all of the Island were similar, but birds from different island had different beaks.

Darwin started to study other animals and plants and he began to pace together his history of natural selection, which explain how populations evolve. Darwin didn't publish his finding straight away because knew that they would be extremely controversial and upset mange people.

On the origin of species finally came out in 1859.

 It was a massive talking point because it challenged the truth of the creation strong found in the Bible.

Darwin's theory of natural selection has been accepted as scientific fact, and constantly adding to our knowledge of the different stages of evolution. Darwin's appears on UK 10 notes and  a statue of him has been placed in the main hall of London's Natural History Museum. In 1858 after two decades of scientific investigationary theory of Evolution. More than 120 species have been named after Darwin.

He died on April 19,1882,in Down house, Downer  Kent, Engladat the age of 73 due to angina attacks and heart failure.