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  1. Charles Robert Darwin FRS FRGS FLS FZS JP [5] ( / ˈdɑːrwɪn / [6] DAR-win; 12 February 1809 – 19 April 1882) was an English naturalist, geologist, and biologist, [7] widely known for his contributions to evolutionary biology. His proposition that all species of life have descended from a common ancestor is now generally accepted and ...

  2. May 29, 2024 · Charles Darwin (born February 12, 1809, Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England—died April 19, 1882, Downe, Kent) was an English naturalist whose scientific theory of evolution by natural selection became the foundation of modern evolutionary studies. An affable country gentleman, Darwin at first shocked religious Victorian society by suggesting that ...

  3. Apr 3, 2014 · Charles Darwin was a British naturalist who developed a theory of evolution based on natural selection. His views, and “social Darwinism,” remain controversial.

  4. Oct 19, 2023 · Charles Darwin was born in 1809 in Shrewsbury, England. His father, a doctor, had high hopes that his son would earn a medical degree at Edinburgh University in Scotland, where he enrolled at the age of sixteen. It turned out that Darwin was more interested in natural historythan medicine—it was said that the sight of blood made him sick to ...

  5. Charles Darwin was a British naturalist who proposed the theory of biological evolution by natural selection. Darwin defined evolution as "descent with modification," the idea that species change over time, give rise to new species, and share a common ancestor. The mechanism that Darwin proposed for evolution is natural selection.

  6. Charles Darwin, (born Feb. 12, 1809, Shrewsbury, Shropshire, Eng.—died April 19, 1882, Downe, Kent), British naturalist.The grandson of Erasmus Darwin and Josiah Wedgwood, he studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh and biology at Cambridge.He was recommended as a naturalist on HMS Beagle, which was bound on a long scientific survey expedition to South America and the South Seas (1831 ...

  7. Charles Darwin is celebrated as one of the greatest British scientists who ever lived, but in his time his radical theories brought him into conflict with members of the Church of England. Young Charles Darwin. Born in 1809 in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, Darwin was fascinated by the natural world from a young age.

  8. Charles Robert Darwin was born into a wealthy family on February 12, 1809 in the town of Shrewsbury, England, UK. He was the fifth child of six. Charles Darwin, aged 7. His grandfather was Erasmus Darwin, a prosperous physician and scientist who had already made significant contributions to scientific ideas about evolution.

  9. Charles Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection made us rethink our place in the world. The idea that humans shared a common ancestor with apes was a challenge to the foundations of ...

  10. May 29, 2024 · Darwin also studied insectivorous plants, climbing plants, and the response of plants to gravity and light ( sunlight, he thought, activated something in the shoot tip, an idea that guided future work on growth hormones in plants). Charles Darwin - Evolution, Natural Selection, Species: England became quieter and more prosperous in the 1850s ...

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