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Darwin natural selection
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Birth of Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin February 12, 1809, The Mount House, Shrewsbury, United Kingdom -
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schooling
Darwin attends Shrewsbury School as a boarder which he despises and described as "narrow and classical". -
failure
Darwin is removed from school, being deemed unsuccessful, and spends the summer accompanying his father on his doctor's rounds. That autumn, he is sent to Edinburgh University, with his brother Erasmus, to study medicine. -
college
After spending some time brushing up on his forgotten Greek, Darwin enters Christ's College, Cambridge. -
meeting
Darwin meets the geologist Lyell for the first time -
love
Darwin marries Emma Wedgwood, his first cousin. Their first child, William Erasmus, is born on December 27th. -
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author
Structure and distribution of Coral Reefs is published,
Darwin writes a 35 page sketch of evolutionary theory. Darwin write Volcanic Islands. Buoyed by Joseph Dalton Hooker’s response to his earlier drafts of evolutionary theory, Darwin finishes a 231 page manuscript. Robert Chambers publishes Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation, a popularisation of evolution theory. Darwin finishes his last book describing the Beagle voyages: Geological Observations on South America -
death
Darwin's eldest daughter Anne dies. -
experiment
he began to experiment with seed and water for his theories of natural selection -
festivities
Darwin invites Huxley and other naturalists to a weekend party, where they discuss his ideas on the origin of species. After the meeting, he begins writing for publication, encouraged by Lyell, who feared that others might publish the same work before him. -
book
He worked on his theory for more than 20 years before publishing it in his famous On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection -
child development
Charles Darwin's "Biographical Sketch of an Infant" -
death
He died in Downe, United Kingdom