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Starts University Oct 1825
This is when Charles Darwin began his university learning. He attended the University of Edinburg Medical School. During this time he, similar to other geniuses, found traditional studies to be boring. He would go out of his way to find topics of interest to him that he would spend his time learning instead of listening to lectures and watching surgeries. This would lead to his transferring of schools to Christs College, Cambridge, where he was first published for his beetle studies. -
HMS Beagle Journey
Darwin would begin a long ship journey to collect information and chart the coastline of South America. Stopping in St Jago, Cape Verde, he began doing research on the local geology. Further into his journey he would collect fossils and look more into anthropological studies as new species began to interest him. Not so much the species themselves, but where the origins of these species were since he would see small variances from island to island. -
The B notebook
Darwin would begin to make his speculations that species change over time as well as the lands of the Earth themselves also change. He would reference the stand out species from his journey on the Beagle and started sharing his findings with other scholars from this time like Charles Lyell, Richard Owen, and John Herschel. These discussions would lead to a sharing of ideas and new theories being dreamt up. The notes he would take during this time would be written down in his "B" notebook. -
Origins of Species Published
Darwin had wrote his controversial book "Origins of Species." Natural Selection would be a topic in this period and he would lobby for articles of a colleague to be published. Also during this time he would have family issues including the death of his son. This would slow the books progress but it would eventually be published this year. The book did not directly discuss the origins of man but it would hint at it and would go on to be better received by the public than expected.