2. • Charles Robert Darwin, February
12, 1809 - April 19, 1882) English naturalist and
traveler, one of the first realized
and demonstrated that all living
organisms have evolved over
time from common ancestors.
Charles Darwin was born
February 12, 1809 in
Shrewsbury, Shropshire, at the
family estate, the Mount House.
The fifth of six children of a
wealthy doctor and financier
Robert Darwin, English. Suzanne
and Robert Darwin, Darwin.
3. •
• By the time he joined the day
school in 1817, eight years
Darwin has joined the natural
history and collecting. Since
September 1818 he, along with
his elder brother Erasmus (born
Erasmus Alvey Darwin) attends
the nearest school
Shrusberskuyu Anglican
(English Shrewsbury School) as
a boarder. Before leaving with
his brother Erasmus to the
University of Edinburgh, in the
summer of 1825, he serves as
assistant-student and helps his
father in his medical
practice, helping the poor
Shropshire.
4. • Darwin's father learned that
his son gave up teaching
medicine, was annoyed and
asked him to go to Cambridge
Christian College and a priest
Anglican priest. Darvin began
to learn, but, according to
Darwin himself, he is too
absorbed in learning, devoting
more time to ride , shooting
guns and hunting (the benefit
of attending lectures was a
matter of voluntary).
5. • He became a close friend and
follower of botany professor John
Stevens Genslou (born John Stevens
Henslow). Due to familiarity with
Genslou he met with other leading
naturalists, becoming known in their
circles as "one who walks with
Genslou." When the exams
approached, Darwin focused on his
studies. At this time, he reads "The
proof of Christianity" by William
Paley, whose language and the
presentation of Darwin's delight. At
the end of training, in January
1831, Darwin is well advanced in
theology, and studied classical
literature, mathematics and
physics, eventually became the 10th
in the list of 178 successful
candidates.
6. •
• Descriptions of the island of
Tenerife, which results in
Humboldt, Darwin, and infect his
friends the idea to go there, at the end
of training sessions for the natural
history in the tropics. Two weeks
later, having returned after a short
geological tour of North Wales, he
finds a letter from Genslou, in which
he recommended Darwin as a
suitable person for the post of unpaid
naturalist Captain "Beagle", Robert
FitzRoy, under whose command of
four weeks to begin the expedition to
the shores of South America.
7. • In 1831, after graduating
from university as a
naturalist, Darwin went on a
trip around the world on the
expedition ship of the Royal
Navy "Beagle", where he
returned to England just 2
October 1836. Trips lasted
nearly five years. Most of the
time, Darwin spends on the
coast, studying geology and
collecting natural history
collections.
8. • Seen them in the Australian
marsupial rat kangaroo and
the platypus seemed so
strange that this led Darwin
to the idea, as if at least two
of the creator at the same
time worked to create this
world. In the 1838-1841
years. Darwin was the
secretary of the London
Geological Society. In 1839
he married, and in 1842 th
wife moved from London to
Down (Kent), where they
reside permanently.
Here, Darwin led a solitary
and measured life of the
scientist and writer