Charles Darwin and his life until evolution
One of many person that motivated me is Charles Darwin. Because he has a great passion for something that he likes and that is natural history, this can be seen when he observed many species in the globe to make his theory about evolution.
Charles Robert Darwin was a British
naturalist known for his theory of evolution and his understanding of the
process of natural selection. His theory of evolution by natural selection
became the foundation of modern evolutionary studies.
Charles Darwin was born on February 12,
1809, in a tiny merchant town of Shrewsbury England. He was the second youngest
from the six kids of Robert what number Darwin and Susannah Wedgwood. His grandfather from
his father side, Erasmus Darwin is a renowned botanist. His mother died when he
was eight years old.
In October 1825, at age 16, Darwin enrolled
at University of Edinburg along with his brother. But Darwin hated the
brutality of surgical operation so he left his study. After that, Charles Darwin
learned how to preserve animal from John Edmonstone, a slave that had been
free, and became a student of Robert Edmund Grant.
Two years later, he became the student at
Christ’s College in Cambridge. This is because his father is not happy of him because
he is not interested to become a medical doctor, so his father suggested he
study to become a parson instead, but Darwin was far more inclined to study
natural history.
While Darwin was at Christ’s Collage, botany
professor John Steven Henslow became his mentor. After Darwin graduated
Christ;s Collage with a bachelor of arts degree in 1831, Henslow recommended
him for a naturalist’s position to accompany Captain Robert FitsRoy aboard the
HMS Beagle, in a two years expedition along the beach line of South America. Of
course Darwin cannot resist, the voyage would prove the opportunity of a
lifetime for the budding young naturalist.
Through hands-on research and
experimentation, he had unique opportunity to closely observe principles of
botany, geology, and zoology. The Pacific Island and the Galapagos Archipelago
were of particular interest to Darwin, as was South America. When Darwin was in
Galapagos Archipelago, he observed the various type of mockingbirds living in different
island. And when in South America, Darwin found large mammal fossil that had been
extinct for a long time.
Upon his return to England in 1836, Darwin
began to write up his findings in the Journal of Researches, published as part
of Captain FitzRoy’s larger narrative and later edited into the Zoology of the
Voyage of the Beagle. the trip had a monumental effect on Darwin’s view of
natural history. He began to develop a revolutionary theory about the origin of
living being that ran contrary to the popular view of other naturalists at the
time.
In January 29, 1839, Darwin married his
cousin, Emma Wedgwood, in Maer. Later on Emma will gave birth to ten children,
but 3 of them past away at a young age.
Through his observations and studies of
bird, plants, and fossils, Darwin noticed similarities among species all over
the globe, along with variations based on specific locations, leading him to
believe that the species we know today had gradually evolved from common
ancestors through a process call natural selection. Darwin’s theory of
evolution and the process of natural selection later became known simply as “Darwinism”.
In 1858, after years of scientific
investigation, Darwin publicly introduces his revolutionary theory of evolution
in a letter reading at a meeting of the Linnean Society. On November 24, 1859,
he published a detailed explanation of his theory in his book, On the Origin of
Species by Means of Natural Selection.
Charles Darwin died at his family home, Down
House, in London, on April 19, 1882. He was buried at Westminster Abbey.
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Quetion :
1. Who is Charles Darwin ?
2. What number of kids he is in his family ?
3. What be the pionner for his evolution theory ?
4. What places most interested Darwin when he enroll the HMS Beagle voyage ? Why ?
5. at what age Darwin die ?
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