Charlse_Darwin

Charlse Darwin 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. His mother was Susannah Wedgewood Darwin. She died when Charles was eight. Charles was educated in the local school, taught by Dr. Samuel Butler. In 1825, he went to Edinburgh to start studying medicine, but he soon realized that he did not have the stomach for it. So he switched to Cambridge, ostensibly to become a clergyman. He was actually more interested in entomology, especially beetles, and in hunting. He graduated from Christ’s College in 1831. It is said that even when he was a young man, he had a patient and open mind, spending many hours collecting specimens of one sort or another and pondering over new ideas. The idea of evolution was very much in the air in those times. It was increasingly clear to naturalists that species change and have been changing for many years. The question was, how did this happen' One of his mentors, John Henslow, encouraged him to apply for the unpaid position of naturalist on darwin, selection, natural, plants, idea, charles, wrote, species, published, one, essay, about, years, over, nature, naturalist, man, islands, animals, wallace, variations, variation, time, theory, son, resources, part, malthus, ideas, famous, come, came, books, book, been, without