Charles darwin

Charles Darwin
(1809-1882)

It was an English naturalist who defended throughout his life that all living species have evolved over time from a common ancestor by the so-called natural selection.The evolution of living beings was accepted as real by the scientific community and most people who followed Darwin, on the other hand the theory that he had done on evolution by natural selectionwas not accepted as an explanation for the evolutionary process until the late 30's.

In his youth he was at the University of Edinburgh to study medicine but was leaving to focus on the investigationof marine invertebrates. Later he entered the University of Cambridge to study natural sciences.
Stakeholders and researchers is the transmutation of species and did his theory of natural selectionin 1838.
In 1858 Russel Wallace sent Darwin an essay in which he defended the same ideas, and quickly performs a published of both theories.

Darwin came to the conclusion that the entirepopulation consists of individuals rather different from each other. These differences make each one has different abilities to adapt to the environment, reproduce and pass on their traits to their offspring.As generations pass, the features of those best adapted to the natural environment become more common and the population evolves. This process is known as descent with modification. Also the natureselects the best adapted species to survive and reproduce, this is called natural selection.
More than 20 years after he began to develop his ideas about evolution, Darwin published his theory in hisbook The Origin of Species (1859). Its publication caused great controversy and was opposed by religious thinkers because he threw down the creationist theory and moved him from the center of creation.This book convinced scientists and the educated public that living things change over time.

The Origin of Species (1859)

The theory of evolution Darwin did had a huge impact on European...