Charles Darwin
Charles Robert Darwin (12 February 1809 – 19 April 1882) was an English naturalist, geologist and biologist, best known for his contributions to the science of evolution. His proposition that all species of life have descended over time from common ancestors is now widely accepted, and considered a foundational concept in science. Darwin published his theory of evolution with compelling evidence in his 1859 book On the Origin of Species. He is buried at Westminster Abbey in a stone sarcophagus.
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Charles Robert Darwin (12 February 1809 – 19 April 1882) was an English naturalist, geologist and biologist, best known for his contributions to the science of evolution. His proposition that all species of life have descended over time from common ancestors is now widely accepted, and considered a foundational concept in science. Darwin has been described as one of the most influential figures in human history, and he was honoured by burial in Westminster Abbey. Darwin published his theory of evolution with compelling evidence in his 1859 book On the Origin of Species. By the 1870s, the scientific community and a majority of the educated public had accepted evolution as a fact. In 1871 he examined human evolution and sexual selection in The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex, followed by The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals. His research on plants was published in a series of books, and in his final book, The Formation of Vegetable Mould, through the Actions of Worms, he examined earthworms and their effect on soil. Darwin’s scientific discovery is the unifying theory of the life sciences, explaining the diversity of life. He was the fifth of six children of wealthy society doctor and financier Robert Darwin and Susannah Darwin. His grandfathers Erasmus Darwin and Josiah Wedgwood were both prominent abolitionists. Charles was baptised in November 1809 in the Anglican St Chad’s Church, Shrewsbury, but Charles and his siblings attended the Unitarian chapel with their mother.
He learned taxidermy around 40-hour-long sessions from John Edmonstone, a freed black slave who accompanied Charles Waterton in the South African rainforest in the 1850s. In Darwin’s second year at the university he joined the Plinian Society, a group of natural-history students with radical views. He presented his own discovery that black shells found in oyster shells were the eggs of a leech leech on March 27, 1827, and presented it at Plinian’s meeting on 27 March 1827. One day, Grant Grant praised Darwin’s ideas, and praised Lamarck’s evolutionary ideas. Darwin was astonished by Grant’s audacity. He assisted Grant’s investigations of the anatomy and life cycle of marine invertebrates in the Firth of Forth, Scotland, in 1827 and 1828. He then went to the University of Edinburgh, before going to the Medical School in October 1825. He found lectures dull and distressing, so he neglected his studies. He spent the summer of 1825 as an apprentice doctor, helping his father treat the poor of Shropshire, beforeGoing to the medical school in 1825 with his brother Erasmos. He became a medical doctor in 1829. He died in Edinburgh in 1882, and was buried at St Mary’s Hospital, Edinburgh, in front of a crowd of 2,000 people. He is buried at Westminster Abbey in a stone sarcophagus.
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