Charles Darwin Facts

Charles Darwin, one of the most foremost figures in the history of science, was born on February 12th 1809 (he shares a birthday with 16th Us President, Abraham Lincoln) in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England. He was the grandson (on his father's side of the family) of Erasmus Darwin, a supreme natural philosopher, and also of Josiah Wedgwood (on his mother's side of the same), who is of procedure known for the industrialization of the output of pottery.

Darwin was spent the year of 1825 as an an apprentice physician with his father, and was subsequently sent to the Edinburgh University to study medicine. Darwin however neglected his medical studies, disliking surgery and finding lectures to be boring - instead his time at Edinburgh awakened an curious in him in taxonomy (the classification of living things) and nautical environments. In 1828, Darwin was sent to Cambridge with the intention of studying for a Bachelor of Arts with the long term aim of becoming an Anglican parson - Darwin however found himself however more curious in beetle collecting, botany, geology and natural philosophy.

Perhaps the key event of Darwin's life was a five year travel nearby the world on the ship Hms Beagle. This travel took place in the middle of 1831 and 1836, and while the ship's primary mission was to eye and chart coasts, Darwin was able to study the geology of areas visited, and amass a vast variety of natural history specimens.

Darwin's travel on the Beagle, was probably the main inspiration for his later ideas. Of these, the most important, and the best known, was his system of evolution by natural selection. Although, evolutionary ideas had been common since at least the 18th century, what Darwin was able to do was to spin the process (natural selection) by which evolution occurred, as well present overwhelming arguments and clear evidence of his position.

Of course, both in Darwin's lifetime and still today, many religious people found themselves unable to accept Darwin's ideas. On the other hand, there are of procedure many religious people who did not find their faith to be an obstacle to notice of evolutionary ideas.

Among the scientific community, the idea of evolution was soon roughly Universally accepted. Darwin's proposed mechanism for evolution, namely natural selection took longer to be accepted, and was for a time one of only several competing evolutionary theories. By the 1930s however, Darwinian evolution by natural selection moderately emerged as the front-runner of the varied evolutionary theories, especially when combined with Mendelian genetics, in what was known as the "modern synthesis". Today, natural selection and Mendelian genetics together form the basic foundation of all modern biological science.

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