CHARLES DARWIN

By: Angie V.

CHILDHOOD

Born February 12, 1802 in Shrewsbury

England

Parents: Robert Waring Darwin & Susannah

Wedgwood

Mother dies when he is around 15

SCHOOL/CAREER

Went to Shrewsbury School and was taken out by his father to attend Christ’s College, University of Edinburgh, with his brother Erasmus and registers for medical courses

Was naturalist on the Beagle

Observations on the Beagle

led him to develop one the

most important theories known

as Natural Selection

BEAGLE

THEORY

Charles Darwin came up with the theory of Natural Selection. He believed that traits were passed down from one generation to the next and that evolution occurs within a population. The six things believed to drive evolution through natural selection where…

Overproduction

Variation

Competition

Selection

Environmental Change

Genes

CONCLUSION

Charles Darwin was a brilliant scientist that

contributed a lot to society. If weren’t for him

and the trip on the Beagle,we may have

never known what affected evolution and

kept it balanced.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

http://darwin-online.org.uk/timeline.html