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Earlier Life and Interest of Natural Science
Charles Robert Darwin was born in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, on February 1809, at his family's home, The Mount. The fifth of six children of wealthy society doctor and financier Robert Darwin and Susannah Darwin. Both families were largely Unitarian, though the Wedgwoods were adopting Anglicanism. Robert Darwin, himself quietly a freethinker. The eight-year-old Charles already had a taste for natural history and collecting when he joined the day school run by its preacher in 1817.. -
Charles Darwin Joined the Scientific Elites & Inception of Darwin's Evolutionary Theory
By the time Darwin returned to England, he was already a celebrity in scientific circles as in December 1835 Henslow had fostered his former pupil's reputation by giving selected naturalists a pamphlet of Darwin's geological letters. He went to Cambridge for Henslow, who advised him on finding naturalists available to catalogue Darwin's animal collections. Darwin's father organised investments, enabling his son to be a self-funded gentleman scientist. -
Overwork, Illness, and Marriage
While developing this intensive study of transmutation, Darwin became mired in more work. Working under pressure, his health suffered. With heart problems his doctors urged him to "knock off all work" and live in the country for a few weeks. The strain took a toll, and he was being laid up for days on end with stomach problems, headaches and heart symptoms. For the rest of his life, he was repeatedly incapacitate. Darwin chose to marry his cousin, Emma Wedgwood. -
Preparing The Origin of Species for publication
Darwin published his theory of evolution with compelling evidence in his 1859 book On the Origin of Species. The scientific community and a majority of the educated public had accepted evolution as a fact. The emergence of the modern evolutionary synthesis from the 1930s-1950s that a broad consensus developed in which natural selection was the basic mechanism of evolution. Darwin's scientific discovery is the unifying theory of the life sciences, explaining the diversity of life. -
The Legacy of Charles Darwin
Darwin and his colleagues had convinced most scientists that evolution as descent with modification was correct, and he was regarded as a great scientist who had revolutionized ideas. In June 1909 his view that "natural selection has been the main but not the exclusive means of modification", he was honored by more than 400 officials and scientists from across the world on his centenary and the fiftieth anniversary On the Origin of Species. //youtu.be/dfsUz2O2jww
