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Charles Darwin
He was born in The Mount House, Shrewsbury, United Kingdom. He was 73 when he died from congestive heart failure at his family home at the Mount House. -
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English naturalist
Charles Darwin is responsible for a plethora of amazing discoveries, although he was most notorious for his theories on evolution, which he had spread through his written paper; On the Origin of Species. -
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Darwinism
Charles Darwin is responsible for the theory and understanding that every living organism on Earth all has a common ancestor that developed or genetically modified to a slight variation of the original organism. He came to the understanding that mutations would change, however would keep the beneficial aspects towards a greater chance of survival. Darwin observed that organisms that were correctly adapted to their surroundings were able to survive and produce offspring. -
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Natural selection
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Source
History.com Editors. “Social Darwinism.” History.com, A&E Television Networks, 6 Apr. 2018, https://www.history.com/topics/early-20th-century-us/social-darwinism. “What Is Darwin's Theory of Evolution?” LiveScience, Purch, https://www.livescience.com/474-controversy-evolution-works.html.