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  Charles Darwin
Darwin's book On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection was published one year later, and was of sufficient interest to have the publisher's stocks completely sold to bookstores on the first day.
Darwin was given particular recognition in 2000 when his image appeared on the Bank of England ten pound note, replacing Charles Dickens.
Darwin is included in the top 10 of the "100 Greatest Britons" poll sponsored by the BBC and voted for by the public.
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 Charles Darwin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Darwin took part in Grant's investigations of the life cycle of marine animals on the shores of the Firth of Forth which found evidence for homology, the radical theory that all animals have similar organs and differ only in complexity.
Darwin preferred the respectability of his friends the Cambridge Dons, even though his ideas were pushing beyond their belief that natural history must justify religion and social order.
However, it is clear that Darwin was the first to develop and publish a scientific theory of natural selection, and that the alleged predecessors did not contribute to the development or success of natural selection as a theory in science.
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 Robert Darwin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Darwin was born in 1766, the son of Erasmus Darwin and his first wife Mary Howard.
Darwin studied medicine at the University of Leiden, and took his MD from the University of Edinburgh in 1786, when he was only 20.
Marianne Darwin (1798-1858), married Henry Parker (1788–1858) in 1824.
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 SparkNotes: Charles Darwin: General Summary
Charles Darwin was born on February 12, 1809, in Shrewsbury, England and died at the Down House in Kent on April 19, 1882.
Darwin soon became entangled in the enormous project of dissecting and describing all of the barnacles of the world for what eventually became a four- volume work.
Darwin decided to produce an "abstract" of a longer book on evolution that he was working on, so as not to let anyone else take credit for an idea he had been developing for more than twenty years.
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 Charles Darwin Biography
Wedgwood), and the grandson of Erasmus Darwin, and of Josiah Wedgwood.
After Darwin finished his studies, Henslow recommended him for the position of gentleman's companion to Robert Fitzroy, the captain of the HMS Beagle, which was departing on a five-year expedition to chart the coastline of South America.
Darwin died in Downe, Kent, England, on 19 April 1882 was given a state funeral, and interred in Westminster Abbey near Isaac Newton.
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 Charles_Darwin_biography
Darwin was expected to follow his father and become a doctor and in 1825, at the age of sixteen, his father removed him from Shrewsbury and entered him in the University of Edenburgh to study medicine.
Darwin volunteered his services without salary and offered to pay his own expenses on the condition that he was allowed to keep all the plants and animals he collected.
Darwin was attacked as a blasphemous radical by the church.
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 Charles Darwin
Darwin was inflicted with intestinal illness and chronic fatigue until his death in 1882.
Henslow advised Darwin, "By all means read it for the facts, but on no account believe the wild theories." [1] Darwin took the first volume of Principles of Geology with him on his voyage and he had the second mailed to him while he was at sea.
Darwin's work was heavily influenced by Lyell's Principles of Geology and Thomas Malthus' An Essay on the Principle of Population (1798).
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 Charles Darwin   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Darwin was born February 12, 1809 in Shrewsbury, England.
In December, 1831, Darwin departed as an unpaid naturalist on a five-year scientific expedition,aboard the H.M.S. Beagle, where he explored and surveyed the Pacific coasts and off-shore islands of South America.
Darwin's research resulting from this voyage formed the basis of his famous book, Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection or Preservation of Favoured Races in the struggle for Life.
www.sjsu.edu /depts/Museum/darwin.html   (232 words)

  
 Charles Darwin - abook4all.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Darwin's Journal and Remarks was very popular and later that year was published on its own becoming the best-seller nowadays known as "The Voyage of the Beagle", establishing Darwin as an author.
Darwin's life work provoked ongoing discussions in the scientific community, and established more than anything else that "evolution" itself had occurred: not necessarily that it was by natural or sexual selection (this particular recognition would not become fully standard until the rediscovery of Gregor Mendel's work in the early 20th century).
Darwin's theory of evolution was a significant blow to creationism and notions of intelligent design prevalant among 19th century Europe.
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 Darwin and Evolution
Charles Darwin was born in Shrewsbury, England, on February 2, 1809.
His father was Robert Waring Darwin, a physician and son of the famous Erasmus Darwin, also a physician, as well as a respected writer and naturalist.
Darwin began suffering from an illness he had probably contracted from an insect bite in the Andes many years before.
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 Charles Darwin
In April of 1831, Darwin graduated from the University of Cambridge with a BA in Theology, Euclid, and the Classics.
Darwin lived another twenty-two years after the book was published, but the major accomplishments of his life had been concluded.
Darwin may have died but his theories live on, and they will continue to live on as long as man wants to believe that there is no God and that this amazing world that we live in just happened by chance.
www.hyperhistory.net /apwh/bios/b2darwincharles.htm   (1485 words)

  
 Obituary (1888)
Darwin, again, was the third son of Erasmus Darwin, also a physician of great repute, who shared the intimacy of Watt and Priestley, and was widely known as the author of "Zoonomia," and other voluminous poetical and prose works which had a great vogue in the latter half of the eighteenth century.
Darwin has jestingly alluded to the fact that the shape of his nose (to which Captain Fitzroy objected), nearly prevented his embarkation in the "Beagle"; it may be that the sensitiveness of that organ secured him for science.
Darwin had not even a cabin to himself; while, in addition to the hindrances and interruptions incidental to sea-life, which can be appreciated only by those who have had experience of them, sea-sickness came on whenever the little ship was "lively"; and, considering the circumstances of the cruise, that must have been her normal state.
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 Charles Darwin
These plans, however, fell through.After Darwin finished his studies, Henslow recommended him for the position of naturalist and gentlemans companion to Robert Fitzroy, the captain of HMS ''Beagle'', which was departing on a five-year expedition to chart the coastline of South America.
Darwin married his cousin Emma Wedgwood in 1839.After living for a number of years in London, the couple eventually moved to Down House, in Downe, Kent (which is now open to public visits, south of Orpington).
Darwins work brought him a correspondence relationship with Alfred Russel Wallace, working in the islands of the South Pacific and Indonesia.On June 18th 1858, Wallace sought Darwins ideas on a theory Wallace had developed which almost exactly mirrored Darwins own work.
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 Charles Darwin   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Charles Darwin, about the same time as the publication of [[The Origin of Species.]] Charles Robert Darwin (12 February 1809 – 19 April 1882) was an English naturalist whose revolutionary theory laid the foundation for both the modern theory of evolution and the principle of common descent by proposing natural selection as a mechanism.
A seven-year old Charles Darwin in 1816 Charles Darwin was born in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England, on 12 February 1809 at the family home, The Mount House.
Darwin's Portrait on the £10 Note Darwin came fourth in the 100 Greatest Britons poll sponsored by the BBC and voted for by the public.
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 Charles Darwin --Great Minds, Great Thinkers
Charles Darwin was born in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England, the fifth of six children of Robert and Susannah Darwin (née Wedgwood), and the grandson of Erasmus Darwin, and of Josiah Wedgwood.
Darwin published other treatises in science, including an explanation for the creation of coral atolls in the South Pacific, and the story f his voyage aboard the Beagle.
Darwin Literature, Chapter-indexed, searchable versions of Darwin's works.
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 Peter D. A. Boyd's paper on Shrewsbury, Charles Darwin and the Darwin Country website
Charles Darwin was born in Shrewsbury, the 'County Town' of Shropshire, on 12th February 1809.
The garden was maintained by members of the Darwin family and their staff until the death of Susan Darwin in 1866 and its arrangement remained similar for many years afterwards.
He called together a wide range of individuals with an interest in Darwin to discuss what might be done and this engendered further support not only for the concept of a Charles Darwin Birthplace Trust but for a far wider range of activities around the time of his birthday.
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 darwin.html   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
His Father was Robert Waring Darwin and his mother was Susannah Darwin.
With out Charles Darwin work we would probably still be looking for animals that are out there that we don't know about.
If Charles Robert Darwin were still alive today he would probably be working as an explorer or some one who travels.
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 DawinBR   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Charles Darwin was born on February 12, 1809 to Robert Waring and Susannah Wedgwood Darwin.
His father, Robert Darwin, was a physician, and son of Erasmus Darwin, a poet, philosopher, and naturalist.
His mother, Susannah Darwin, died when he was eight years old.
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 Charles Robert Darwin (1809-1882)
Charles Robert Darwin was born on 12 February,1809 fifth of six children of Robert Waring Darwin and Susannah,daughter of Josiah Wedgwood.
Sir Francis Galton, CD's cousin was equally interested in biology, however unlike CD went on to study more obscure field of the subject, Hereditary and Intelligence.The term,Eugenics was coined by him for new science for improvement of the inborn qualities.
I do not know whether or not I have a sufficient amount of sources,but I will do my best to create a compact and reasonable page by highlighting one of the greatest work this man has written for all humankind.
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