CHarles Darwin
Charles Darwin was born in Shrewsbury, Shropshire in 1809. His mother died when he was eight years old, leaving his sister to look after him. He originally went to school in Shrewsbury, then was sent to Edinburgh to study medicine. After realizing that medicine wasn't of interest to him, he attended Christ's College in Cambridge to study theology. At this time in his life, one of his main interests was to collect plants, insects, and geological specimens. While at college, his botany professor, John Stevens Henslow secured a place for him as a naturalist on a surveying expedition of HMS Beagle to Patagonia. The expedition would last from 1831 to 1836. During this five year expedition, Darwin obtained intimate knowledge of the flora, fauna, and geology of many areas. This would equip
In 1858, Alfred Russel Wallace sent him a memoir of the Malay Archipelago, which to Darwin's surprise, contained the main ideas of his own theory of natural selection. He was persuaded to submit a paper of his own, which he based on his 1844 sketch. This paper, along with Wallace's, were read before the Linnean Society. Neither of the men were present at this historic event. Darwin died after a long illness. It wasn't discovered until after his death that he had contracted Chagas' Disease, which was passed to him through an insect bite while in South America. He left behind eight children, some of whom achieved great distinction. Though Darwin was not the sole originator of the evolution hypothesis, nor even the first to apply the concept of the descent of plants and animals, he was the first thinker to gain
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