charles darwin

  • birth

    charles darwin was bor into a open minded family in britain
  • new ideas in edinburgh

    darwin studies at edinburgh to follow in the footseps of his father
  • beetles in cambridge

    though he wanted to be a doctor, he couldnt handle the grossness of the scene so he began to collect beetle to further his career in biology
  • setting sail around the world

    darwin is invited on a sailing ship to travel the world as a "gemntlemen naturalist"
  • the galapogos islands

    after leaving south america the ship made a 5 week stop at the galapogos islands
  • first account of evolution

    darwin observes the evidence of what they called transmutation but more severe adaptations
  • worrying yourself sick

    at 1851 darwins daughter becomes ill and dies he himslef also suffers from bouts of nausea
  • rewriting evolution

    in 1858 darwin finally went publicabout his discovery of evolution
  • origin of the species

    darwin publishes his book called origin of the species, even though he feared losing his reputation
  • ideas on trial

    darwins book on evolution drew lots of attention, some not zo positive as hid ideas were challenged by the church
  • inbreeding mayhem

    charles darwin chalenges the culture of inbreeding after he loses three childre due to it
  • survival of the fittest

    charles uses his new editions of origin of the species and introduces his idea of survival of the fittest
  • descent of man

    after publishing his first ideas of evoluion he publishes a new concept of human evolution that directly contradicted the church
  • death

    darwin worked until the end and thus died a virtual recluse surrounded by jus family and a few friends. even though he was not popular he was granted a grand funeral