Who was Charles Darwin?
Charles Darwin was born on 12th February 1809 in Shrewsbury England. His father was Dr. Robert Waring Darwin. He had an interest in natural history at an early age. His mother died when he was 8 and he was brought up by his sister. When Darwin was a child he was home schooled and went a to a day school owned by Rev. Case. When was done with school he went to the univ. of Edinburgh at the age of 16 to study medicine. Later on he gave that up and went to the univ. of Cambridge when he became a naturalist. Darwin studied science, religious philosophic and literary, this is when he started his ecclesiastical career. After graduating Darwin went on the voyage of the “S.S. Beagle” when his job was similat to a naturalist, study rocks and collect specimens. The voyage lasted five years. When Darwin returned he had a rare illness that he had for the rest of his life. He then wrote the book ” The Origin of Species”, this book was an abstract of his theories. It was published on November 24, 185
Charles Darwin was born on February 12, 1809, in Shrewsbury, England. His father, Robert Darwin, was a physician, the son of Erasmus Darwin, a poet, philosopher, and naturalist. Charles’s mother, Susannah Wedgwood Darwin, died when he was eight years old. At age 16, Darwin left Shrewsbury to study medicine at Edinburgh University. He later enrolled in Cambridge University to prepare for a career as a clergyman in the Church of England. After receiving his degrees in 1831, Darwin accepted an invitation to serve as an unpaid naturalist on a five-year scientific expedition to South America aboard the HMS Beagle. This voyage and Darwin’s later research formed the basis for his theory of evolution by means of natural selection, detailed in his book On the Origin of Species, published in 1859. Darwin continued throughout most of the rest of his life to publish his research and writings on biology. In his later years, Darwin was plagued by fatigue and intestinal sickness, thought by some hist
