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Famous Victorian
scientist
Charles Darwin
Where he was born and what
job he wanted
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Charles Darwin was born on the 12th
of February 1809 in Shrewsbury,
England and died on the 12th of April
1882. In 1831 he joined a scientific
expedition bound for South America
and the Pacific Ocean on a sailing
ship called the Beagle (18311836).He was to be the ship’s
naturalist ,the expert on plants and
animals.
His family
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His father Robert Darwin was a
wealthy Shropshire physician and
Charles and his brother Erasmus
were expected to follow suit .Charles
Darwin and his wife Emma had 10
children – 6 boys and 4 girls called
William, Anne, Mary, Henrietta,
George, Elizabeth, Francis, Leonard,
Horace and Charles.
Robert Darwin
Why was he Famous
 He
was famous because he
proposed a theory of evolution
that made sense ,namely natural
selection.
Why did Charles Darwin wanted to
be a scientist
He wants to be a scientist because he
was obsessed with the natural world,
collecting samples and recording
facts; his hobby as a youth was
collecting beetles. He also enjoyed
corrosponding with other scientists
about the natural world. In a sense,
becoming a scientist was simply a
way of being paid to do what he
would have actually done for nothing.
Charles Darwin’s book
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Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species, published
on 24 November 1859, is a seminal work of scientific
literature, considered to be the foundation of
evolutionary biology. Its full title was On the Origin of
Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the
Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle
for Life. For the sixth edition of 1872, the short title was
changed to The Origin of Species. Darwin's book
introduced the theory that populations evolve over the
course of generations through a process of natural
selection. It presented a body of evidence that the
diversity of life arose by common descent through a
branching pattern of evolution. Darwin included evidence
that he had gathered on the Beagle expedition in the
1830s and his subsequent findings from research,
correspondence, and experimentation.
Facts about Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin was born on the same day
as Abraham Lincoln.
 Charles Darwin beat Charles Dickens to
become the face of the new £10 note in
2000. Apparently his beard makes it hard
to reproduce his portrait hair by hair.
 Darwin inadvertently ate a new bird
species for Christmas dinner on the Beagle
in 1833.
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By Matthew C