Charles Darwin

By Alex Mitchell

  • Grandfather was also famous

    he was a personal doctor for King George III

  • Born

  • Looking up to his father

    His father was atentive in his medical studies and overbearing to young Charles to attend a good school

  • Beggining his work

    He is getting dissmissed from society, but find time to find seea slugs and sea pens on nearby shores Accompaning him is Robert Edmond Grant a radical evolutionist he became Darwins mentor in teaching him about primative marine invertabrates

  • Idea of a Voyage

    Steven Henslow had a thought to travel to South America and after Alexander von Humbolt went and wrote about his findings Darwin was inspired to go and see this for himself

  • HMS Beagle

    Went to Tierra del Fuego with Robert Fitzroy who wanted to bring back the "savages" and Darwin armed himself with books
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    Natural Disasters affect his findings

    Climbing 4,000 ft and marveling at the forces that could make these mountains rise. Also marvels at Mount Osorno as it erupted. Earthquake destroys Concepcion and moves land and Darwin figures out that the land has been here for longer than what they had previously thought

  • Finding his way home

    Leaving Peru the circumnavigated and got to the Galapagos islands finding different species of wrens and finches but refering to them as not a species of wren or finch

  • Last of his journey

    Fitzroy sees coral beds on the tops of the mountains on the Cocos Islands it ends up entailing the mytery of mysteries

  • Talking with the experts

    the ataonomist at the Royal Collge of Suregeons flung him into depth and wanted him to perfect his work and make it known
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    Filling his notes and figuring out when to publish

    for two years he was vigerously jotting down notes and figuring out what to publish from his notes he searched and searched for answers of extinction thinking of life as a tree and branches every species from a single ancestor.
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    Work on his thoery and mysteries of nature

    Russel Wallace a younger naturalist much like Darwin had agreed to make a joint announcment of their discovery in 1858 and share the credit. Darwin then finally published his work of 'On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection Selection' in 1859

  • Figuring out what mankind evolved from

    he spent much time at zoos and studying orangutans, chimps and other apes and observed their humanlike behavior he is becoming closer to figure out the evolution theory

  • done having children

    Darwin and his wife Emma had 10 children in all all becoming different in different fields

  • Annie his daughter and love

  • dies