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Birth of Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin was born February 12, 1809
Son of Robert Darwin and Susannah Wedgwood-Darwin
He was the fifth of six children. -
Darwin attends Shrewsbury boarding school.
Darwin attends boarding school until the age of 16 at which time he father wanted him to attend medical school. -
Darwin drops out of medical school
While attending Edinburgh University, he becomes repulsed by the horrific standards of early 19th century surgery. -
Darwin attends Christ college
After dropping out of medical school Charles Darwin enrolls atChrist College in Cambridge to studyTheology. -
Charles Darwin makes a friend
During his studies at Christ College he befriends a professor by the name of John Stevens Henslow who informs him that Captain Fitzroy of the HMS Beagle is in need of a Naturalist. Darwin agrees. -
The HMS Beagle
Darwin begins his five year voyage on the HMS Beagle -
From minster to the churches biggest opponent.
While on his voyage Darwin reads Sir Charles Lyell's Principles of Geology. While reading he learns that it undermines Genesis and it gave him a timeline that he uses to reach the idea that life evolved slowly of time. During this time he was a minister for the Church of England and afterwards became one of it's biggest opponent. -
Darwin returns to England and begins work on his book The origin of Species.
When his voyage on the Beagle was over Darwin returns home and marries his cousin (Eww) and together that had ten children (And people make fun of us Kentuckians). Over the twenty years he works on his theory and his book and was actually not going to publish it until another naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace developed ideas that were in line with his own and that gave him that motivation to publish his book. -
His book is published
Darwin publishes The Origin of Species in 1859.
In this book he argues that the evolution of the species is through natural selection which is where a species that is better suited to adapt to their environment survive and those that cannot adapt eventually die out. -
The originator of the Z.Z Top beard??
Starts to grow beard after becoming ill. -
Darwin gets awarded
In November 1864 he is awarded the Copley medal of the Royal Society of London. It is their highest scientific award. -
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Having a busy life!
Over the next eighteen years Darwin publishes various papers and books around the bases of the evolution of species and man. -
A life well lived.
On April 19 1882 Charles Darwin suffering from multiple illnesses succumbs to congestive heart failure.
