Charles Darwin

Charles Darwin was an English naturalist born in 1809. Darwin was the fifth child of a wealthy and sophisticated english family. He graduated from Cambridge in 1831 and he was later taken aboard the English survey ship HMS Beagle. There he had the opportunity to look at many geological formations and found in every place along the way. He found many fossils of species who looked alike but had different characteristics and there his ideas started to come up. He drew his ides of the evolution theory in his notebooks of Transmutation of Species. He started to focus on his explanation of how organisms evolved after reading an essay on the Principle of Population. He then got married with his first cousin, Emma Wedgwood and had 10 kids together, 3 which died when they were infants. His theory was  first announced in 1858. Darwin believed that all animals reproduced to produce and their genes pass on other generations. I think that Darwin was so afraid of developing his theory because in his times everyone believed that earth was created in 7 days and if anyone thought or had different opinions was punished and accused. He didnt wnat to publish his book because everyone would look at him differently and his ideas would contradict everyone including his family.    

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