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Charles Darwin

Charles Darwin, aged 45 in 1854, by then working towards publication of On the Origin of Species
Born 12February 1809(1809-02-12)
Mount House, Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England
Died 19 April 1882(1882-04-19) (aged 73)
Down House, Downe, Kent, England
Residence England
Citizenship BritishNationality British
Fields Naturalist
Institutions Geological Society of London
Alma mater (tertiary education):
University of Edinburgh (medicine)
University of Cambridge (ordinary Bachelor of Arts)Academic advisors John Stevens Henslow
Adam Sedgwick
Known for The Voyage of the Beagle
On the Origin of Species
evolution by
natural selection,
common descent
Influences Alexander vonHumboldt
John Herschel
Charles Lyell
Influenced Joseph Dalton Hooker
Thomas Henry Huxley
George Romanes
Ernst Haeckel
Notable awards Royal Medal (1853)
Wollaston Medal (1859)
Copley Medal(1864)
Signature

Charles Robert Darwin FRS (12 February 1809 – 19 April 1882) was an English naturalist.[I] He established that all species of life have descended over time from common ancestry,and proposed the scientific theory that this branching pattern of evolution resulted from a process that he called natural selection.

He published his theory with compelling evidence for evolutionin his 1859 book On the Origin of Species, overcoming scientific rejection of earlier concepts of transmutation of species.[1][2] By the 1870s the scientific community and much of the general publicaccepted evolution as a fact. However, many favoured competing explanations and it was not until the emergence of the modern evolutionary synthesis from the 1930s to the 1950s that a broad consensusdeveloped that natural selection was the basic mechanism of evolution.[3][4] In modified form, Darwin's scientific discovery is the unifying theory of the life sciences, explaining the diversity of...