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DARWIN (YEARS/ IMPORTANT LIFE EVENTS: (Charles Darwin was born in England,…
DARWIN
YEARS/ IMPORTANT LIFE EVENTS:
Charles Darwin was born in England, in 1809, he died on 1882 in United Kingdom.
In his early years, he got caught by the book Natural Theology by William Paley, so he read it, but he was convinced that Paley was wrong, arguing that he didn’t even explained the how of species changes, he just wrote about God being always right about every organism he did
Before entering to Cambridge University, Darwin wanted to be a physician, but he hated seeing blood, so he went to Cambridge to study beetles, though he liked skipping lectures and classes
He graduated and obtained Gentleman’s CS at the age of 22, but he had no direction in life, he just had a collection of beetles. —>
Darwin was rich and he was obsessed with beetles, therefore, his family sent him to South America, on a ship called HMS Beagle. ————>
He completed a voyage to South American islands, this lasted 5 years before returning to England.
Darwin then came up with the question: what is life?, and at the same time, he was following the Victorian tradition of marrying with cousins, he married his cousin Emma Wedgwood in 1839, he had babies and moved to Kent.
What he was not doing was publishing a complete theory of evolution, because his next move was pigeon fancying.
Darwin bred pigeons to understand artificial selection (how humans design organisms). He did this because it was easier than watching how finches evolved through millennia of Natural Selection.
Then Darwin spent 8 years studying barnacles, while writing to his friends on advice for his theory.
Darwin finished writing down his theory but he didn’t publish it, because he wanted to have incontrovertible proof.
In 1858 Darwin received a letter from Alfred Russel Wallace, he needed advice to make his theory more believable, Wallace was a naturalist that had also independently discovered Natural Selection.
Lyell (Darwin’s mentor) told him that he had no choice now, but to publish his theory in joint with Wallace’s works on the field.
Darwin and Wallace published a joint letter in the Journal of the Proceeding of the Linnean Society of London.
After this, in just one year (1858-1859), Darwin wrote a 500 pages compelling book on his theory, and published it on 1859 by the name of On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection or just The Origin
Darwin’s book debuted as a modest work of only twelve hundred copies but it vastly turned out into a science bestseller. This book explains how descent with modification or transforms works like.
Darwin stated that Natural Selection modifies the population: the fittest survive and reproduce, passing on their traits. Unfit species die out and populations diverge into new species.
Charles Darwin ended having a heart arrest and died in United Kingdom in 1882 at age 73.
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