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Charles Darwin's Entry to the World of Science
Charles Darwin grew up in a family that was adopting Anglicanism at the time in the early 1800’s. He had a fascination for natural history growing up and in the fall of 1825, Charles entered the University of Edinburgh Medical School. Eventually, Charles transferred to Christ’s College, Cambridge on his father’s request. It was here, Charles would learn about inductive reasoning and studies of laws of nature. -
Theory of Evolution
After taking a long voyage on the HMS Beagle, Charles’s created the basis of his evolutionary theory. Pamphlets were already being passed out about Charles’s discoveries to other naturalists. He went around to other experts in the United Kingdom to get other opinions on his botanical specimens. Eventually by March of 1837, Charles was talking about how “one species does change into another” to explain the geological distribution of living species. -
Natural Selection
On the 28th of September 1838, Charles noted that the human “population, when unchecked, goes on doubling itself every twenty five years, or increases in a geometrical ratio”. This was the beginning of his idea of natural selection. He went on to explain that species would continue to populate past their current food supply and the need to adapt would be passed to their offspring which would change the aspect of the species. These new adaptations would help change them into new species. -
Charles Darwin's Death
After Charles published several writings of theories based on natural selection and the theory of evolution, Charles Darwin died on the 19th April 1882. In his lifetime, Charles Darwin contributed to the philosophy of science by challenging the normal thought process of how people believed humans came about. His works and studies brought new light to how species adapted to survive their increasing numbers in population.
