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Charles Darwin was a British naturalist who proposed the theory of biological evolution in 1858.
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Darwin was always a curious child, so when he was little he liked to explore natural spaces surrounding this family home and collect samples and specimens of flora and fauna.
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Charles Darwin was born on 12th February in 1809 in Shrewsbury, United Kingdom, USA, America.
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When he grows up, he entered the University of Edinburg to study medicine at the request of this father, what was a doctor.
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in 1828, he entered Christ’s College, Cambridge.
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n university, he met someone’s scientifics with who Darwin travelled from 1831 to 1836 and be part of a research expedition on ship “HMS Beagle”, to catalogue animals and plants,
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he realized the patrons on animals and plants, in 1839, Darwin was defined evolution as “descendent with modification”, species change over time, giving rise to new species and sharing a common ancestor.
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Charles Darwin won the Royal Medal in 1853
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Wollaston Medal in 1859
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He helps to understand the living world and the way its many species function, evolve and interact.
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Later, after studied and analized this theory, in 1859, he publishes “The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection”, for he won Wollaston Medal.
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Copley Medal in 1864