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Charles Robert Darwin was born in Shrewsbury, England at his family home, the Mount.
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Attended the official university lectures, but complained that most were boring, and found himself too sensitive to the sight of blood.
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Charles Darwin studied natural history and was then forwarded to the voyage of the H.M.S Beagle by a professor of botany.
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This trip provided opportunity to observe principles of botany, zoology and geology which consequently let to Darwin's discoveries
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Darwin considered Malthus's argument that human population increases more quickly than food production, leaving people competing for food and making charity useless.
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The newlyweds returned to London rather hastily, making the guests quite upset. One possible explanation for leaving early may have been that by now Darwin had developed his fear of being in crowds of people for long periods of time.
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Charles Darwim published The Structure and Distribution of Coral Reefs, Being the first part of the geology of the voyage of the Beagle, under the command of Capt
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Charles Darwin received the Royal Medal of the Royal Society, the highest honor the society could bestow on a scientist
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Charles Darwin publishes On the Tendency of Species to form Varieties.This famous paper originally appeared in the Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology.
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On the Origin of Species proved unexpectedly popular, with the entire stock of 1,250 copies oversubscribed when it went on sale.
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During a review on the origin of species Thmas Huxley term the word Darwinism which is associated with a rage of concpets regarding Darwin’s theory of evolution
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Darwin was awarded the Copley Medal; the highest honour bestowed by the Royal Society.
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Darwin's second great book on evolutionary theory, following his 1859 work, On The Origin of Species. In The Descent of Man, Darwin applies evolutionary theory to human evolution.
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The University of Cambridge had come round to Darwinism, and on Saturday 17 November the family attended the Senate House for a ceremony in which Darwin was awarded an honorary Doctorate of Laws
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Charles Darwin died at Down House, London on 19 April 1882.
