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Charles Robert Darwin was born in Shrewsbury, Shropshire.
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Attended Edinburgh University to study medicine.
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At age 18, went to study Divinity at Cambridge. While there he also pursued his passion for biology by collecting beetles and walking on the Fens.
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Was recommended as a "gentleman naturalist" on a voyage around the world on the HMS Beagle. Visited four continents collecting specimens and investigating the local geology.
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HMS Beagle visited the Galapágos Islands where he studiedfinches, tortoises, and mockingbirds.
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Reviewed his specimens and began to notice how transmutation happened
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Darwin went public with his groundbreaking theory of evolution by natural selection.
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Darwin published his new theory of evolution.
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Origin of Species became a bestseller worldwide and went into multiple editions.
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Published The Descent of Man, which presented his ideas on the account of human evolution.
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Died at the age of 73