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Charles Darwin's Birthday
Charles Robert Darwin was born in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England on 12 February 1809 at his family home.
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Voyage on the Beagle
When Darwin was 22 he set sail for a trip as a naturalist on the HMS Beagle, as a naturalist he collected rocks, plants, animals and fossils. These specimens were later used to form his theory of evolution. This trip lasted a total of 5 years. In the Cape Verde Islands Darwin noticed some shells within a cliff face along the shoreline about forty-five feet above sea level. The cliff face was at one time under water. Darwin wondered how it ended up forty-five feet above the sea? -
Charles Darwin First Speech to the Royal Geological Society of London and presentation to the Zoological Society of London
Although Darwin is known for his evolutionary theory this speech, although about geology, it may give us a glimpse in his curiosity about what we now know as evolution. The topic of this paper was about the rising of South America and as it rises the ocean subsides. What Darwin mentions but didn't understand was the species in South American somehow or another adapting to this change. This was a big change from the belief that animals simply died out, rather than adapt. -
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Charles Darwin First Goes Public on Views of Evolution and publishes 'On the Tendency of Species to form Varieties'
On 18 June 1858 Darwin had received a letter from Wallace containing an essay entitled “On the tendency of species to depart indefinitely from the Original type” which highlighted the ideas of evolution through natural selection. Darwin was shocked believing that what was written was his idea only. Darwin gave the letter along with his own letters, essays and sketches to Hooker, to figure out what was going on and to fix it. -
The Origin of Species
The key event in Charles Darwin's science career and also known as considered the foundation to evolutionary biology. This book introduced the theory that populations evolve over time through a process of natural selection. In the book he also included evidence from the voyage on the Beagle in the 1830s.
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Charles Darwin's Death
Darwin died in Down, Kent, on April 19, 1882. A running theory is Darwin suffered from Chagas's disease, when bitten by a Benchuga bug during his scientific studies in South America.
