Darwin, Charles

Charles Darwin was born in England in 1809 and became one of the world's most famous naturalists.
He was the first person to give a workable explanation of Evolution.
During a five-year voyage around the world, he studied animals and plants in many countries and he was impressed by their great variety.
He observed what he called the struggle for existence, with each organism struggling to get food and avoid being eaten,
and he realized that only those individuals best fitted or suited to their surroundings could survive.
Here was an explanation for the great variety of plant and animal life throughout the world:
conditions vary enormously from place to place and living things have gradually changed to suit these different conditions and habitats.
On his return home, he set about collecting more evidence and in 1859 he published his ideas in his famous book called
On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
Darwin's ideas met a lot of opposition at first, but were gradually accepted by most people and are still the basis of the theory of evolution today.
Darwin died in 1882 and was buried in Westminster Abbey, in London.

(The Theory of Evolution)
Darwin Developed the theory of evolution gradually.
His observations during the voyage on HMS Beagle and other expeditions contributed to his ideas.
He published his theory in On the Origin of Species in 1859.
At first the theory met with great opposition - especially among religious leaders and Darwin was ridiculed in cartoons
because people mistakenly thought he had said that human beings are descended from monkeys.

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