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Born of Darwin
Charles Robert Darwin born in Shrewbury, Shropshire, England. Being the fifth of six sons in a upper.middle class family, he already showed a predilection of natural history. -
Trip of the Beagle: Plymouth
A journey of 5 years, Darwin traveled in the Beagle to Playmouth and Falmouth, were he began his work as a biologist collecting specimens in mainland. -
Argentina: a big discovery
Darwin discovered a huge fossil hill of extinct mammals. From a tooth, he discovered the Megatherium, the ancestor of the sloths. -
Trip in the Beagle: Falmouth
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Darwin becomes a member of the Royal Society
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Natural Selection
Darwin sent his ideas of the evolution of men to the botanic Asa Gray, including a fragment of his future book, Natural Selection. -
Publication of the book
Natural Selection didn't get good critics of the cientific society, saying that everything new was wrong, and everything good had been already exposed. -
Death and last work
He died in Downe, Kent, England. His last work was the study of the vines and carnivorous plants. He also suffered taunts and insults for his theory of the evolution.
