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On this day the famous Charles Robert Darwin was born in Shrewsbury, England, to parents Robert Darwin and Susannah Wedgwood.
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Charles goes to Edinburgh U for medicine but shows interest in Zoology and free thinking.
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His father switched Charles to Cambridge where he learned about Botany and meets Rev. John Henslow, his teacher/mentor.
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Darwin comes up with the Theory of Evolution stating that all life started in the ocean and developed over time into everything we have today with natural selection as a main point of his theory.
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Darwin publishes his book on this Theory of Evolution.
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After a long life Charles Darwin passed away.