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| Charles Darwin naturalist, geologist and biologist |
Died : 19 April 1882 (aged 73) Down House, Downe, Kent, England
Education : Christ's College, Cambridge
University of Edinburgh Medical School
Shrewsbury School
Known for
- The Voyage of the Beagle
- On the Origin of Species
- The Descent of Man
Awards
- FRS (1839)
- Royal Medal (1853)
- Wollaston Medal (1859)
- Copley Medal (1864)
- Doctor of Laws (Honorary), Cambridge (1877)
Fields : Natural history, geology
Signature :
Charles Robert Darwin was an English naturalist, geologist and biologist,best known for his contributions to the science of evolution.He established that all species of life have descended over time from common ancestors and, in a joint publication with Alfred Russel Wallace, introduced his scientific theory that this branching pattern of evolution resulted from a process that he called natural selection, in which the struggle for existence has a similar effect to the artificial selection involved in selective breeding.
Darwin published his theory of evolution with compelling evidence in his 1859 book On the Origin of Species, overcoming scientific rejection of earlier concepts of transmutation of species.By the 1870s, the scientific community and a majority of the educated public had accepted evolution as a fact. However, many favoured competing explanations and it was not until the emergence of the modern evolutionary synthesis from the 1930s to the 1950s that a broad consensus developed in which natural selection was the basic mechanism of evolution.Darwin's scientific discovery is the unifying theory of the life sciences, explaining the diversity of life.
Quotes
A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.
We must, however, acknowledge, as it seems to me, that man with all his noble qualities... still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.
If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.
I love fools' experiments. I am always making them.
I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection.
An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.
A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.
To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact.
The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic.
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