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Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin was born February 12, 1809 in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England. He was an English naturalist whose scientific theory of evolution by natural selection became the foundation of modern evolutionary studies. Darwin was the second son of society doctor Robert Waring Darwin and of Susannah Wedgwood. While he attended Shrewsbury School where he studied between 1818 and 1825 he hated it there because science was then considered dehumanizing and Darwin liked chemistry at this point in life -
The Beagle voyage of Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin at the age of 22 went on a voyage to south America February 1832- September 1835. This voyage shaped Charles Darwin as a naturalist he was allowed to leave the ship for extended period of times to pursue his own interest's. In December of 1832 he came into contact with "untamed" humans on Tierra Del Fuego. He then wrote "the difference between savage & civilized man is it is greater than between a wild & a domesticated animal. Darwin was drawn to this difference between cultures. -
Evolution by natural selection
In the years 1836-1842 where when Charles Darwin started working on his theory of evolution. Darwin became well known through his diary's publication as journal of researchers into geology and natural history. In the years of civil unrest following the first reform act 1832 Darwin devised his theory of evolution. Darwin had Unitarian roots, and his breathless notes show how his radical thinking and understanding of mankind's place in nature. By the end of everything Darwin lived a double life. -
Continuation of natural selection and the death of Charles Darwin
In July 1858 the first public presentation of the theory of natural selection was done. Darwin wrote a book the origin of species by means of natural selection. The book begin selling on November 22, 1859. Darwin had many people who did not like his ideas and thoughts on natural selection they were once know as taboo areas but after some time Darwin's theories helped earn the Royal Society's Copley medal in 1864. Darwin had a seizure in march of 1882 he died of a heart attack April 19 1882.