Darwin (Evolution)

Date and place of birth:12 February 1809,England


Life:He was the fifth of six children of wealthy society doctor and financier Robert Darwin, and Susannah Darwin.The Beagle survey took five years, two-thirds of which Darwin spent on land. He carefully noted a rich variety of geological features, fossils and living organisms, and methodically collected an enormous number of specimens, many of them new to science


Discoveries: He realised and demonstrated 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.


Date of death:19 April 1882