Charles Darwin: The Vestiges Of The Natural History Of Evolution
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Summary
Charles Darwin was born on February 12, 1809, in Shrewsbury, England and died at the Down House in Kent on April 19, 1882. He was born to Robert and Susannah Darwin.
In 1831, Darwin was offered a position on board the HMS Beagle. He eagerly accepted the opportunity and spent the next five years on board the Beagle. Henslow and other geologists, zoologists, and botanists were fascinated by the specimens he had collected.
In 1839, Darwin married Emma Wedgwood, his cousin, and they moved in to a house in London where Darwin could focus on his work.
His health started to fail, so they moved to the country.
Darwin soon became entangled in the enormous project of dissecting and describing all of the barnacles of the world. The project took eight years and in 1854 he finally finished, and was able to turn back to the problem of evolution. …show more content…
In 1857, Alfred Russell Wallace sent Darwin a paper regarding the evolution of species. Wallace's theory was very similar to Darwin's. Darwin decided to produce an abstract of longer book on evolution that he was working on, so as not to let anyone else take credit for an idea he had been developing for more than twenty years. The abstract was published in 1859 and was called On the Origin of Species, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. It sold out the first printing within a day.
Debates over the meaning of the theory for the nature of humanity began. His friends Joseph Hooker, the botanist, and especially Thomas Henry Huxley, the zoologist, defended his theory to the world while he continued to do
Summary
Charles Darwin was born on February 12, 1809, in Shrewsbury, England and died at the Down House in Kent on April 19, 1882. He was born to Robert and Susannah Darwin.
In 1831, Darwin was offered a position on board the HMS Beagle. He eagerly accepted the opportunity and spent the next five years on board the Beagle. Henslow and other geologists, zoologists, and botanists were fascinated by the specimens he had collected.
In 1839, Darwin married Emma Wedgwood, his cousin, and they moved in to a house in London where Darwin could focus on his work.
His health started to fail, so they moved to the country.
Darwin soon became entangled in the enormous project of dissecting and describing all of the barnacles of the world. The project took eight years and in 1854 he finally finished, and was able to turn back to the problem of evolution. …show more content…
In 1857, Alfred Russell Wallace sent Darwin a paper regarding the evolution of species. Wallace's theory was very similar to Darwin's. Darwin decided to produce an abstract of longer book on evolution that he was working on, so as not to let anyone else take credit for an idea he had been developing for more than twenty years. The abstract was published in 1859 and was called On the Origin of Species, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. It sold out the first printing within a day.
Debates over the meaning of the theory for the nature of humanity began. His friends Joseph Hooker, the botanist, and especially Thomas Henry Huxley, the zoologist, defended his theory to the world while he continued to do