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Charles Darwin Cambridge
Charles Darwin attends Cambridge University to become a clergyman after refusing to be a physician such as his father had dreamed for him. His interest in botany came apparent as he started to collect beetle specimens and attending naturalist lectures. -
Charles Darwin and the HMS Beagle
Darwin sets sail on the HMS Beagle to map South America. The voyage takes 5 years, and during the voyage many specimens are collected and studies from various parts of the world. Most research done was viewed as insignificant at the time by those on the ship. -
Charles Darwin's Finch studies
Galapagos islands is where the beagle lands and Darwin becomes intreagued in that the local Finch population had different beak shapes for specific foods, directly related to the island that species of Finch was on. These observations open the door for Darwin to accept evolution as a possibility, in the sense that offspring are slightly modified to improve their chance of survival in a given environment. -
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Charles Darwin a brief video
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Charles Darwin publishes "Origins"
After many years of gathering specimens, Darwin finally published "The Origin of species". This going against his past beliefs that God created all. The book shocked the scientific community as it outlined that species naturally evolve in order to improve the chances of that species survival. Different from evolution in a sense as he did not reference this until later. The book was evolution by natural selection.
