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Charles Robert Darwin born in Shrewbury, Shropshire, England. Being the fifth of six sons in a upper.middle class family, he already showed a predilection of natural history.
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A journey of 5 years, Darwin traveled in the Beagle to Playmouth and Falmouth, were he began his work as a biologist collecting specimens in mainland.
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Darwin discovered a huge fossil hill of extinct mammals. From a tooth, he discovered the Megatherium, the ancestor of the sloths.
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Darwin sent his ideas of the evolution of men to the botanic Asa Gray, including a fragment of his future book, Natural Selection.
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Natural Selection didn't get good critics of the cientific society, saying that everything new was wrong, and everything good had been already exposed.
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He died in Downe, Kent, England. His last work was the study of the vines and carnivorous plants. He also suffered taunts and insults for his theory of the evolution.
