Charles Robert Darwin was born on February 12,1809 in Shrewsbury, England. His parents were Robert Waring Darwin and Susannah Wedgwood. He had five brothers and sisters. He was a British naturalist, and he became famous for his theories of evolution and natural selection. His theory was that all the life on earth evolved over millions of years from common ancestors. Around 1831 he was a naturalist aboard the H.M.S Beagle and took a voyage that lasted from December 27, 1831 to October 2, 1836. He found different things in the many areas that he visited. On the Galapagos Islands he discovered that many variations among plants and animals of the same general type as those in South America, where he found fossils of extinct animals that were similar to modern species. He saw that within species no two individuals were alike. Everywhere he went he collected specimens to take home with him. When he arrived home in London he researched his findings.

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“…. If man can in a short time give elegant carriage and beauty to his bantams, according to his standard of beauty, I can see no good reason to doubt that female birds, by selecting, during thousands of generations, the most melodious or beautiful males, according to their standard of beauty, might produce a marked effect.” Charles Darwin, “The Origin of Species”(1859) As you can see Charles Darwin raised a lot of question about the beginning of the Earth and its make- up, as we know it, or thought we knew. Charles Darwin believed in natural selection, and survival of the fittest. He lived from 1809 until 1888, and had a big effect on the minds and beliefs of people.

With Darwin’s research he came up with several similar theories. First, he believed that evolution did occur. Second, he believed that evolutionary change was gradual, which would have taken millions of years. Thirdly, he believed that the primary mechanism for evolution was a process called natural selection. That means that certain species are selected by nature to survive in specific environments because they have characteristics that they adapt to their surroundings (natural selection). Lastly, he believed that all species alive today arose from a single original life form through a branching process called “specialization.” He believes, with his theory of evolutionary selection, that the variation between species occurs randomly and that the survival/extinction of each organism is determined by that organism’s ability to adapt to its environment. During his research, he saw that the early prenatal periods of many different species were similar, which brought the idea of common ancestors. He was proven wrong later on but he was known as the forefather of the study of child development with his charting of t

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