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Charles Robert Darwin was born in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England on 12 February 1809. -
After the death of his mother in 1817, Darwin joins Shrewsbury School as a boarder, with his older brother.
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Due to Darwins bad grades, his father deem him unsuccessful in school and removed him from it. Darwin spends the summer accompanying his father. That autumn, he is sent to Edinburgh University, with his brother Erasmus, to study medicine. -
Darwin grew tired of medicine and eventually leaves Edinburgh
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Charles Darwin is invited to join HMS Beagle on a surveying voyage to South America. Darwin becomes part of the Beagle Voyage. This voyage included sailing to South America for documentation of new creatures.
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After returning to England, Charles started writing papers on his findings and theories. He began publishing his papers right away. He begins his first theories on specie mutations. Darwin begins making his first theories on the mutation and evolution of animals within their species.
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Darwin gets married a woman to a woman named Emma Wedgewood. Emma happened to be Darwins cousin. -
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Darwin publishes writings on stalked barnacles. The Royal Society award Darwin their Royal Medal for his work and writing on barnacles.
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Charles began working on a paper for his theory called natural selection. "With Darwin's discovery of natural selection, the origin and adaptations of organisms were brought into the realm of science. The adaptive features of organisms could now be explained, like the phenomena of the inanimate world, as the result of natural processes, without recourse to an Intelligent Designer" (Ayala).
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Charles' book was titled On The Origin Of Species By Natural Selection.
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Darwin publishes On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation in the Struggle for Life. It is immediately a best-seller but opinion on its argument for evolution is divided.
Citation: Darwin, Charles, and Leonard Kebler. On the origin of species by means of natural selection, or, The preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life. London: J. Murray, 1859. Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/06017473/>. -
Charles was presented the Copley medal, the highest scientific award of the Royal Society of London. -
Darwin published his second book. Citation: Darwin, Charles. The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication. , 1868. Print. -
Darwin’s second book on evolutionary theory, The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex, focusses on human evolution and sexual selection. Citation:Darwin, Charles, and John Murray. The Descent of Man: And Selection in Relation to Sex. London: John Murray, Albermarle Street, 1871. Print. -
Darwin publishes his fourth book. Citation: Darwin, Charles. The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals. London: J. Murray, 1872. -
Observations on their Habits [hereafter Worms], based on extensive study of the behavior of worms and the effects that they have on the earth's surface. Darwin, Charles. The Formation of Vegetable Mould: Through the Action of Worms, with Observations on Their Habits. London: John Murray, 1881. Print. -
After a heart attack on Christmas, followed by seizures, Charles Darwin ends up passing. -
Darwin solved the mystery of how coral reefs are formed
Darwin’s published his travels as well as a detailed scientific field journal while on board the Beagle. It brought Darwin considerable fame and respect; and remains in print to this day
Darwin discovered natural selection
the origin of species book influenced western civilization.
Darwins work laid the foundation for Evolutionary Biology -
Ayala FJ. Darwin's greatest discovery: design without designer. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 May 15;104 Suppl 1(Suppl 1):8567-73. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0701072104. Epub 2007 May 9. PMID: 17494753; PMCID: PMC1876431. Lotzgof, Kelly. “Charles Darwin: History's Most Famous Biologist.” Natural History Museum, https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/charles-darwin-most-famous-biologist.html.
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