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Charles Robert Darwin
Charles Robert Darwin born 12 February 1809 in Shrewsbury,England. He was the son of Robert Darwin, who successfully practiced as a doctor.Mother Susannah Wedgwood came from a wealthy family, owners of the famous porcelain factory. -
Education.
In 1817, Charles Darwin began attending school for the incoming students in Shrewsbury. He was not much success, but then he developed a taste for natural history and collecting.
In 1818 Charles entered the "big school" with the guest house, which was for him "just empty space". -
The beginning of the path.
In the years 1825-1827 Darwin studied medicine at Edinburgh University, and in 1827-31 years — theology in Cambridge. In the years 1831-36, on the recommendation of botanist George. Henslow and family Vejvodu Darwin got on the ship the Beagle's naturalist and traveled around the world From travel, he returned the man of science. -
Trip.
December 27, 1831 the Beagle set sail. Darwin managed to take only released the 1st volume of "Fundamentals of Geology" by Charles Lyell. This fact had a great influence on the formation of scientific views of the young researcher.After returning from this trip, Darwin showed that both continental and insular volcanoes are associated with large crustal faults, fractures formed during uplift of mountain chains and continents. -
After travelling...
After traveling Charles Darwin began to keep a systematic record of evolution. From 1837 to 1839, he has created a series of notebooks in which he sketched out in a brief and fragmentary form of thought about evolution. In 1842 and 1844 he was in two installments outlined in the brief, the sketch and essay on the origin of species. In these works, already has many ideas, which were later published them in 1859. -
Evolution...
In 1854-1855 Charles Darwin comes very close to starting work on a evolutionary essay, gathers materials on the variability, inheritance and evolution of wild species of animals and plants, as well as data on breeding domestic animals and cultivated plants, comparing the effect of artificial and natural selection. He began writing the work, the amount of which he estimated at 3-4 volume. By the summer of 1858, he wrote ten chapters of this work. -
Work.
The shutdown was caused by the receipt of the manuscript by A. Wallace, which independently of Darwin was the foundations of the theory of natural selection. Darwin began to write short recovery and with unusual haste to complete their work in 8 months. November 24, 1859 published "the Origin of species by means of natural selection, or the Preservation of favored races in the struggle for life." -
The historical merit.
The historical merit of Darwin is that he, together with Wallace opened a driving factor of evolution — natural selection and thereby revealed the reasons for the occurrence of biological evolution.
Around the world was erupting, was a struggle for Darwin, Darwinism, on the one hand, against Darwinism on the other. Buzzed audience worried scholars and publicists, some branded Darwin, others admired, and Charles Darwin continued to work on his Down.
