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Charles Darwin is born at The Mount, Shrewsbury, the fifth child of Robert Waring Darwin, physician, and Susannah Wedgwood.
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Darwin is removed from school, being deemed unsuccessful, and spends the summer accompanying his father on his doctor's rounds. That autumn, he is sent to Edinburgh University, with his brother Erasmus, to study medicine. Charles does not care much for studying medicine and decided to leave the university without completting his degree.
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While competing his school Darwin is ranked top 10 out of the 178 other students in his BA class.
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The Beagle journal is published under the title Journals and Remarks, volume three of Darwin's Narrative of the voyage. where Darwin studied the lives of many sea creactures and the effects of the ocean on the world.
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after the beagle returns from its voyage and research study's Charles Darwin gets married, writes Structure and distribution of Coral Reefs, thirty-five page sketch of evolutionary theory, Volcanic Islands. As well as being elected to many oleanonic society boards.
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Darwin conducts experiments to prove that seeds, plants and animals could reach oceanic islands, where they might produce new species in geographic isolation.Darwin invites Huxley and other naturalists to a weekend party, where they discuss his ideas on the origin of species. After the meeting, he begins writing for publication, encouraged by Lyell, who feared that others might publish the same work before him.
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Darwin had been working for two years writing his "big book", provisionally titled Natural Selection, when on 18 June 1858 he received a parcel from Alfred Wallace, who was then living in Borneo. It enclosed a twenty pages manuscript describing an evolutionary mechanism that was similar to Darwin's own theory. Under pressure to publish his ideas, Darwin started work on an "abstract" summary, which was published in November 1859 as On the Origin of Species.
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Cambridge bestows Darwin with an honorary doctorate of law.Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals completes great cycle of evolutionary writings.
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After a heart attack on Christmas, followed by seizures, Charles Darwin dies, in great suffering, at Down House. He is later buried in Westminster Abbey.