CHarles Darwin

Title: CHarles Darwin
Category: Literature / English
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CHarles Darwin

Charles Darwin (1809-82) Charles Darwin was born in Shrewsbury, Shropshire in 1809. His mother died when he was eight years old, leaving his sister to look after him. He originally went to school in Shrewsbury, then was sent to Edinburgh to study medicine. After realizing that medicine wasn’t of interest to him, he attended Christ’s College in Cambridge to study theology. At this time in his life, one of his main interests was to collect …showed first 75 words of 560 total…

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…showed last 75 words of 560 total…him through an insect bite while in South America. He left behind eight children, some of whom achieved great distinction. Though Darwin was not the sole originator of the evolution hypothesis, nor even the first to apply the concept of the descent of plants and animals, he was the first thinker to gain acceptance for the theories from other biologists. Because of him, the theory was raised from a hypothesis to a verifiable theory. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**

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