Charles Darwin
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born
February 12, 1809
died
April 19, 1882
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male
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Mount House, Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England, The United Kingdom
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Science, Biographies & Memoirs, Nonfiction
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Charles Robert Darwin was an English naturalist, eminent as a collector and geologist, who proposed and provided scientific evidence that all species of life have evolved over time from common ancestors through the process he called natural selection. The fact that evolution occurs became accepted by the scientific community and the general public in his lifetime, while his theory of natural selection came to be widely seen as the primary explanation of the process of evolution in the 1930s, and now forms the basis of modern evolutionary theory. In modified form, Darwin’s scientific discovery remains the foundation of biology, as it provides a unifying logical explanation for the diversity of life.
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"It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change"
— Charles Darwin
— Charles Darwin
"There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved."
— Charles Darwin (Origin of Species)
— Charles Darwin (Origin of Species)
"Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science."
— Charles Darwin
— Charles Darwin
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