Charles Robert Darwin was born on February 12th, 1809 at Shrewsbury, England. He came from a family of respected medical men and scientists. His father, Robert Warring Darwin, was a doctor and his grandfather, Erasmus Darwin, was a well-known doctor and naturalist who among a few others believed that old species of plants and animals slowly evolved over the ages into new ones.

Charles Darwin was fascinated with nature ever since he was a child. He grew up in a home surrounded by woods and wildlife and was always collecting insects, bird nests, shells, and rocks. Charles's mother died in 1817 when he was only eight years old and his three older sisters took over the responsibility of his upbringing. He attended Rev. Case's Unitarian day school for one year and then Dr. Butler's boarding school until 1825 but his grades were less than brilliant. His fathe

Charles continued his research on this subject and in 1839 he married his cousin, Emma Wedgwood. He published his first book called Journal of Researches in the same year. He and Emma moved to Down, a small town outside of London, in 1842 and remained there for the rest of their lives. For the next few year Charles worked very hard and published more works on the research he had done on the Beagle. In 1859 he finally published Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection. This book included the theory of evolution and, for the first time, evidence for it. The book upset a lot of people because of its contrast from the Bible. Charles was fortunate he had a close friend, a scientist by the name of Thomas Henry Huxley, who fought all of his debates for him. He never recovered from his illness he received on his voyage aboard the Beagle, but he resumed writing books for the rest of his life explaining his theory of natural selection more fully.

Charles Darwin's name was becoming more and more popular and in 1831 he was given the opportunity of a lifetime. Captain Robert Fitz-Roy invited Charles on a voyage of exploration around the world aboard the H.M.S. Beagle. It was on this voyage that Charles made his most famous discoveries, especially on the topic of evolution. The Beagle visited various places all over the world including Tenerife, the Cape Verde Islands, Montevideo, Tierra del Fuego, Buenos Aires, Valparaiso, Tahiti, New Zealand and Tasmania, but Charles' main research was done during his visits to South America and the Galapagos Islands.

Charles Darwin died at the age of 73 on April 19th, 1882, leaving behind two daughters and five sons. He was buried near Isaac Newton at Wesminster Abbey on April 26th which was attended by a great number of scientists , diplomats and representative persons.

On his visit to South America, Charles noted details of the sea and sky, of plants, animals, people, rocks, birds, clouds, winds and insects. All of which were new and strange to him. He found a large deposit of fossil shells and bones where there was a jawbone of

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