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Birth
Charles Darwin is born in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England. -
Beginning of Education
Darwin was enrolled in Edinburgh University at the age of 16. He met a plethera of free thinkers that exposed him to radical ideas unheard of at the time. It also led to him meeting his mentor Robert Edmund Grant“Charles Darwin. ” Encyclopædia Britannica. Encyclopædia Britannica, inc. Accessed April 24, 2022. https://www.britannica.com/biography/Charles-Darwin. -
Change in Direction
After his father noticed Darwin wasn't learning medicine how he thought. He changed his university to a more religious one. Christ College, Cambridge, which was a completely different environment of ideas from what he was used to. -
The Beagle Voyage
Darwin embarks on a voyage down the coast of South America with a group of adventurers. He saw first hand examples of nature adapting and finding new ways to move up the food chain. “Charles Darwin.” Encyclopædia Britannica. Encyclopædia Britannica, inc. Accessed April 24, 2022. https://www.britannica.com/biography/Charles-Darwin. -
Transmutation
After looking closely at fossils he had come in contact with over the years and especially when it came to studying three different species of Galapagos hummingbirds which had unique characteristics depending which island they inhabited thus led to his idea of "Transmutation" which we know as evolution. -
Journal published
Journal of Researches into the Geology and Natural History of the Various Countries Visited by H.M.S. Beagle was published along with his findings.
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Draft of Theory of Natural Selection
Darwin drafted a 35-page sketch in which he would continue to work on for the next two years but refused to publish it but left a note to his wife stating if he die then he would have left money for it to be published. -
The experiments
After the death of his daughter, he lost faith in the church which then led him to release the restraints and explore the ideas of natural selection and theory of evolution. He began experimenting with seeds and how they speciate and the relation between different species of birds. -
Kin Selection
After studying sterile worker bees and the retention due to their inability to breed he coined the term "family selection"
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Natural selection presented to the world
Although Darwin did not attend the presentation due to his son's death. His and other colleagues findings to back up the theory were presented to the community.
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Disproving others
Used the book The Various Contrivances by which British and Foreign Orchids are Fertilised by Insects in order to prove that anomalies in nature weren't by coincidence or made by god but for purpose much like the beauty of flowers not meant for people to look at but meant to attract bees for pollination. -
Recognition
Darwin received the Royal Society's Copley Medal.
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More Findings Published
The Different Forms of Plants Found on the Same Species and The Effects of Cross and Self Fertilization in the Vegetable Kingdom were published telling the importance of cross-pollination. -
Last Work Published
The Formation of Vegetable Mould, Through the Action of Worms would be published being his last written work.
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Death
Darwin suffers a heart attack and passes away. -
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