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Birth
Born in Shrewsbury, Shropshire. Charles Darwin was born into a wealthy family. He was the fifth of the family's six children. -
Footsteps of the Family
At the age of 16 Charles Darwin along with his brother were sent to the University of Edinburgh Medical School to obtain the best medical knowledge. -
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Cambridge University
Realizing the medicine was not for him. Charles Darwin looked to Christ College at Cambridge University for his degree in Divinity. -
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HMS Beagle
During Charles Darwin's 5 year voyage aboard HMS Beagle, his time was spent investigating and theorizing geology. -
On The Origin Of Species, By Means Of Natural Selection
What Is Darwin's Theory Of Evolution After years of observation, research, and theorizing Charles Darwin published his collective works and theory on natural selection. Darwin, C., 1859, On the Origin of Species, London: John Murray. -
Death
Diagnosed with coronary thrombosis, Charles Darwin succumbed to his illness. -
Resources
Lennox, James, "Darwinism", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Spring 2019 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/spr2019/entries/darwinism/. LiveScience. “What Is Darwin’s Theory of Evolution?” YouTube, 30 June 2017, www.youtube.com/watch?v=w56u2gv8XLs. Accessed 20 June 2019. In-text citation: (LiveScience) Darwin, C., 1859, On the Origin of Species, London: John Murray. -
Contribution
The questions of how where we came from or how we came to be is one that has been asked and scrutinized for as long as our species has walked the earth. Though not the first to question such things, Charles Darwin is the first to publish literature, providing his theories along with evidence to back up his in order to answer the life long question. Although his theory heavily opposed that of the religion, the evidence that Charles Darwin provided did well to substantiate argument.
