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Charles Robert Darwin was born in Shrewsbury, Shropshire. He was 1 of 6 children. He grew up in a free-thinking family even though he had grown up Christian. His mother was a potter and his father a doctor. -
"The College Years"
Edinburgh is where 16-year-old Charles Darwin attended university to become a medic. When he felt he had learned nothing during his two years at the university, he decided to take up science instead, knowing there would be no better place in Britain to learn. At age 18 he had transferred to Cambridge to study Divinity since he was training to be a clergyman. While at Cambridge he also started to become passionate about biology which would spark his real passion. He graduated in 1831. -
"Charles Sets Sail"
In 1831, Darwin embarked on HMS Beagle voyage around the world. On his trip, he collected many specimens like plants, fossils, and birds. He was most fascinated with the Galapagos Islands and South America. That is where he studied finches, tortoises, and mockingbirds, but not in enough detail to come to any great conclusions. -
"Charles Findings"
In 1836, Darwin wrote his findings in the Journal of researches. It was published as a part of the captain's narrative and then edited into the "Zoology of the Voyage of the Beagle". The voyage affected Darwin and changed his views on some natural history. As soon as he got home he began to develop an idea that was different from other naturalists at the time. This is when he had started to draft his first encounter of evolution. -
"The Marriage"
In 1839, Darwin married his first cousin Emma Wedgwood. They had 10 kids. 3 of them passed away from the product of inbreeding. -
"Charles' Monologue"
Darwin's volume on coral reefs was his first monologue. Coral reefs caused heated debates and Darwin wanted to show his theory on them even though they differed from others. His theory was that they formed in a "gradual series from the fringing reef, through barrier reefs to atolls". ("Charles Darwin and the Origin of Species" pg52) -
"The Origin of Species"
Since his theory contradicted many others, he had to find as many reasons as he could to be right. One year later it was published. the book explained his ideas further in-depth. It described natural selection, the process where organisms better adapted to their environment tend to survive and produce more offspring and evolution, the way a species changes over a long period of time. His theory was finally accepted as science in the 1870s. -
D.O.D
Charles Robert Darwin Passed away at the age of 73 due to heart complications. He was buried in West-Minster Abbey in London England.
