Charles Darwin - Obituary

Darwin’s Childhood and Education

Charles Darwin was born in the city of Shrewsbury, England and was raised as a fifth child by a wealthy family. (His father was a physician and son of Erasmus Darwin, a poet, philosopher and naturalist). Sadly Charles’s mother Susannah Wedgewood died when Charles was just eight years old. In 1825, Darwin graduated from the elite school at Shrewsbury. He then attended the University of Edinburgh to study medicine. In 1927 he dropped out and entered the University of Cambridge in order to become a clergyman for the Church of England. There he met Adam Sedgwick and John Stevens Henslow. These two people where influential figures in his life. They taught him to become an observer of natural phenomenon and a collector of specimens.

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Darwin’s Theories and Discoveries

After graduating from Cambridge in 1831, he was brought aboard the English survey ship HMS Beagle as an unpaid naturalist and was set to go on a scientific expedition around the world. Darwin set sail on 27 December that year for what was to be a five-year journey. The most important part of the voyage for Darwin turned out to be a few weeks spent in the Galapagos islands, which are on the equator about 1000km from the coast of South America. These islands had plants and animals that are found nowhere else in the world. Darwin ...

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