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                                                          CHARLES ROBERT DARWIN

Charles Robert Darwin, a famous English naturalist who created Natural Selection which is part of the scientific theory. He lived from Febuary 12, 1809 to April 19, 1882. Before, Darwin was interested in nature, he studied medicine at Edinburgh University. At Edinburgh University he was actually selected to study marine invertebraes, which he later made the switch to the University of Cambridge where he had a passion for natural science. As he took a Five-Year voyage on the HMS Beagle and people established him as an eminent geologist which his theories and observations were supported by geologist Charles Lyell's uniformitarian ideas and Darwin's own publication called the "Journal of the Voyage" made him a very popular author. On his voyage, he collected many things like fossils. After the voyage, Charles studied what is called the transmutation of species and he had conceived his own theory of the natural selection in 1838. Although he had discussed the ideas with several naturalists, he needed more time for extensive research for his study of Geoglogy. He then continued to become an author and started to write about the natural selection theory. He made books such as The Decent Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex, and The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals. His extensive research resulted in multiple published books about plants. He was married to Emma Darwin and they both had 10 children during the Victorian Age. After his marriage he had an unspecified illness no one knew. He quoted, "Constant attacks...makes life intolerable bother and stops all work." Doctors never found Darwin's illness but they all knew that it was due to too much working, otherwise called, "Overworking". The illness was a strange mix of symptom problems he had. Sadly he died on April 19, 1882, he was 73 years old. During his burial at Westmeister, London, he was buried next to John Herschel and Isaac Newton

PLACES CHARLES DARWIN VISITED ON HIS VOYAGE ON THE HMS BEAGLE 

Charles Darwin first started his voyage on the beginning of early December 27, 1881 he took off to visit places to investigate more about the thing he loved most, geology. Mostly what happened this time was that the HMS Beagle that Charles was in mostly cruised through islands and coasts while Charles himself was tracking down notes about what he saw and differences he had seen in animals. Most of what he wrote were copied so he can give some of his notes to his family members. After doing such things they stopped at Santiago, Cape Verde. Some things that Charles Darwin got were mostly seashells because the place they stopped was much more like an ocean or beach compared to living places. After going to Santiago, Cape Verde Charles Darwin arrived at Brazil which he loved the Tropical Forest so much he wanted to stay but in the verge of being caught to slavery Charles Darwin, the HMS Beagle, and his naturalists left Brazil quickly only to arrive at Punta Alta which is in Pantagonia. While in Pantagonia he gathered lots and lots of fossil bones of huge extinct animals like Dinosaurs and more. He figured out that there was no change in climate while still investigating and researching for more bones he found some type of animal armour that looks like what he thought was a huge kind of armour from an armadillo. Following his quest to figure what armour that was lead him to England where his ideas collided with Charles Lyell's ideas. After, three fuegians on the HMS Beagle since the first voyage have been staying at England for a year already. Charles Darwin decided to return them back to Tierra del Fuego this time as missionaries. Darwin found them to be very nice people that shared their cultural ceremonies and experiences. Looking forward, he traveled to Chile where he felt a major earthquake and after, saw signs that the geography of Chile changed and that the mussel-beds were hanging over a very high tide in an ocean. He also discovered that Chile rised and some parts floated. After taking lots of notes and investigating after the earthquake  he went to the Galapagos islands where he searched for wildlife attracting to him and trying to find differences of the same animals he saw at other places he visited and he found lots of mockingbirds similar to those he found at Chile but had different colors and allignments. He carefully took notes about it. He arrived home and put on his journal of what he had made and wrote.

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                        Darwin during his middle ages                                Charles Darwin's book, "The Origin Of Species"

                 The HMS Beagle on a journey to the South Americas