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1809 in Shrewsbury, England. ... Charles Darwin past away in 1882.
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Evolution And Charles Darwin. ... Because of this long-necks became a dominant trait
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Charles Darwin. Charles Darwin Charles Darwin can easily be recognized as a pure
genius. ... Charles Darwin was born in Shrewsbury, England, in 1809. ...
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Charles Darwin was born in Shrewsbury, Shropshire. His father was Robert Waring Darwin and his wife was Susannah, and he was the grandson of scientist Erasmus Darwin. His mother died when he was 8 years old, and his sister brought him up. He was taught at Shrewsbury, then sent to Edinburgh to study medicine, which he disliked very much so. Like many modern students, Darwin was only good in subjects that interested him him. Although his father was a physician, Darwin was not interested in medicine and he was couldn't stand the sight of surgery. Eventually he did get a degree in theology from Cambridge University, even though he wasn't really interested in it.
What Charles really liked to do was walk over the hills, observing plants and animals, collecting new specimens, investigating and observing their structures, and categorizing his findings, with the help of his cousin William Darwin Fox, an entomologist. His botany professor, John Stevens Henslow, who was pushing for Darwin to be a naturalist on the surveying of HMS Beagle to Patagonia, encouraged Darwin's scientific inclinations. Under Captain Robert Fitzroy, Darwin visited Tenerife, the Cape Verde Islands, Brazil, Montevideo, Buenos Aires, Chile, the Galapagos Islands, Tahiti, New Zealand, and Tasmania. In the Cape Verde Island Darwin devised his theory of coral reefs. Another important stop on their trip was in the Galapagos Islands, where Darwin found huge populations of tortoises and he found that different islands were home to visibly different types of tortoises. Darwin then found that on islands without tortoises, prickly pear cactus plants grew with their pads and fruits spread out over the ground. On islands that had hundreds of tortoises, the prickly pears grew very thick, in tall trunks, bearing the pads and fruits above the reach of the tortoises. During this 5 year expedition, he got knowledge of the fauna, flora, and geology of many lands, which helped him in his later...
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