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Charles Darwin was born in a town named Shrewsbury, England, UK. His father was a physician and his mother was from a famous pottery family.
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Charles Darwin was offered the position of naturalist on HMS Beagle, a British Royal Navy's survey ship. The mission was five years long and collected samples of fauna, flora, and fossils during all this time.
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Darwin presented specimens of birds he collected from the Galapagos, Island. He had discovered 12 new finch species and a new group of finches.
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At the age of 16, Charles Darin became a student at the University of Edinburg, his father wanted him to study medicine but Charles found it boring. His father withdrew him from Edinburg and send him to Cambridge. Darwin found zoology interesting.
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The origins of Species often called the most important book in Biology was published on November 24, 1859. He made six different editions of the book.
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Darwin presented evidence that humans are animals and we are members of the apes family.
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Darwin wanted to show the similarities humans and animals have in his book The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals.
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His theory of natural selection was not well accepted until the book The Genetical Theory of Natural Selection by Ronald Fisher.
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