charles darwin

Charles Robert Darwin (12 February 1809 – 19 April 1882) was an English naturalist,[I] eminent as a collector an geologist, who proposed and provided scientific evidence that all species of life have evolved over time from common ancestors through the process he called natural selection. The fact that evolution occurs became accepted by the scientific community and the general public in his lifetime, while his theory of natural selection came to be widely seen as the primary explanation of the process of evolution in the 1930's, and now forms the basis of modern evolutionary theory. In modified form, Darwin’s scientific discovery remains the foundation of biology, as it provides a unifying logical explanation for the diversity of life.

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Bertrand Russell said that "What Galileo and Newton were to the 17th century," this man "was to the 19th"
On his return to England in 1836, he began setting down his theory of evolution
"Voyage of the Beagle"
He originated "The Origin of Species"
His theory of evolution is widely accepted; his son George's theory of the moon's origin isn't
Well I'll be a monkey's uncle, in 1859 he shocked the world with his "Origin of Species"
Capt. Robert Fitzroy commanded the Beagle on the 1831-36 expedition with this naturalist
In "The Descent of Man", this naturalist wrote, "I would have soon been descended from that heroic little monkey"
Robin Marantz Henig's recent masterful essay on evolutionary biology was titled this 19th century scientist's "God"
On the first day of its publication in 1859, all 1,250 copies of his "On the Origin of Species" sold out
In July 1837 this naturalist began writing his notebooks on the transmutation of species
He made a "monkey" out of all of us in his 1859 book
Botanist Asa Gray was one of the earliest supporters of this man's evolution theory
One of the authors figured they'd do for history what this man did for biology
In "Descent of Man" he states "The nightingale and crow have vocal organs similarly constructed"
People went ape after his groundbreaking 1859 publication
With a B.A. from Cambridge in hand, he headed out to sea to see the world as a naturalist
Inspired by Thomas Malthus' food-supply ideas, his 1859 book was called "the book that shook the world"
He was only 22 when he boarded the Beagle in 1831
Irving Stone's "The Origin" is "A Biographical Novel of" the life & career of this scientist
He was fit enough to survive for 5 years on the HMS Beagle working as a naturalist
After his 5-year voyage, 1831-36, this naturalist never went abroad again; he had been seasick much of the time

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