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The Voyage of HMS Beagle
The voyage of the HMS Beagle began on December 27, 1831. Aboard was a young Naturalist named Charles Darwin who throughout the journey would make several discoveries that would lay the groundwork for arguably the most ground-breaking theory in the science of biology to date. Bowles, B, and B Kaplan . Science and the Culture throughout History . Kendall Hunt Publishing Company , 2012. -
Study and Prepuration
Shortly after returning to England Darwin would move London where he began studying his specimens and notes from his voyage. Over is twenty-two-year period would slowly develop his theory of evolution through natural selection jotting down a library of notes and publishing several papers and books. -
Wallace on the Scene
Charles Darwin and Alfred Russell Wallace both have papers detailing some of their work on evolution through natural selection presented to the Linnean Society of London. -
Publication of On the Origin of Species
On November 24th, 1859 Charles Darwin publishes what will become his most famous and influential work On the Origin of Species. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnktXHBvE8s
