Charles_Darwin

Charles Darwin Charles Darwin was the son of Robert Waring Darwin and his wife Susannah. He was born in Shrewsbury, Shropshire. Charles mother died when he was eight years old. His sister raised him after the death of his mother. Darwin studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh and theology at Cambridge University (The World Book Encyclopedia 40). In 1827, he loved to collect insect, plants, and geological specimen. He visited many places under Captain Robert Fitzroy. He visited Tenerife, Brazil, Montevideo, Tahiti, New Zealand, and many other interesting places. In one of his experiments, he devised a theory of coral reefs. He obtained intimate knowledge of fauna, flora, and the geology of many lands during his expedition. This helped equipped him for his later investigations. Darwin served as a naturalist with darwin, downe, charles, world, visited, university, spent, specimens, robert, reefs, places, own, one, mother, lived, knowledge, fossils, expedition, encyclopedia, death, coral, books, book, 40, zealand, years, writing, wife, while, wedgwood, waring, variation, until, under, time