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Charles Darwin Birthdate
Charles Darwin was born February 12,1809 and was born Charles Robert Darwin. He came from a well off family. His father was a doctor, and his mother—who died when he was only eight years old—was the daughter of a successful 18th-century industrialist. -
Darwin's Education Background
He attended Anglican Shrewsbury School, where he studied between 1818 and 1825.
He was then sent study medicine at Edinburgh University in 1825
His freethinking father, shrewdly realizing that the church was a better calling for an aimless naturalist, switched him to Christ’s College, Cambridge, in 1828 -
What was Darwin famous for?
Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection is the foundation upon which modern evolutionary theory is built. The theory was outlined in Darwin’s seminal work On the Origin of Species, published in 1859. -
What Darwin's Famous For
Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection is the foundation upon which modern evolutionary theory is built. The theory was outlined in Darwin’s seminal work On the Origin of Species, published in 1859 -
Darwin's Death Date
Darwin died April 19, 1882 in Downe, Kent