Charles Darwin
Charles Robert Darwin was a British scientist who laid the foundation of
modern evolutionary theory with his views on life development through natural
selection. He was born in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England, on February 12, 1809.
After graduating from the elite school at Shrewsbury in 1825, Darwin
attended the University of Edinburgh where he studied medicine. In 1827 he
dropped out and entered the University of Cambridge in preparation for becoming
a clergyman of the Church of England. While there, Darwin met two important
people in his life: Adam Sedgwick, a geologist, and John Stevens Henslow, a
naturalist. After graduating from Cambridge in 1831, the 22-year-old Darwin was
taken aboard the English survey ship HMS Beagle, mainly because of Henslow's
recommendation, as an unpaid naturalist on an expedition around the world.
When the voyage began, Darwin didn't believe that species change through
time, but he did believe in two prevailing ideas of the......
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