Charles Darwin
Charles Robert Darwin, who was born in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England, on February 12, 1809, was a great British scientist. Charles Darwin developed his idea of evolution called natural selection. “His work was of major influence on life, earth sciences, and modern thought in general (Encarta).”Darwin was the fifth child of a wealthy and sophisticated English family. His maternal grandfather was a great china and pottery creator named Josiah Wedgwood and his paternal grandfather was a famous 18th-century physician named Erasmus Darwin (Encarta). After he graduated from school in 1825, Darwin went to the University of Edinburgh to study medicine. In 1827 he dropped out of medical school and entered the University of Cambridge because he wanted to become a clergyman of the Episcopal Church. There, Darwin met two people named Adam Sedgwick, who was a geologist, and John Stevens Henslow, who was a naturalist. Henslow showed Darwin how to be a thorough witness of natural events and an assembler of specimens. At the age for twenty-two, after graduation from Cambridge, which was in 1831, Darwin boarded the HMS Beagle, an English surveying ship. In his geological observations aboard the beagle, Darwin was most
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