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Charles Darwin
British naturalist
Also known as: Charles Robert Darwin
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- In full:
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Born:
- February 12, 1809, Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England
- Died:
- April 19, 1882, Downe, Kent (aged 73)
- Awards And Honors:
- Copley Medal (1864)
- Notable Works:
- “On the Various Contrivances by Which British and Foreign Orchids Are Fertilised by Insects”
- “Origin of Species”
- “The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex”
- “The Different Forms of Flowers on Plants of the Same Species”
- “The Effects of Cross and Self Fertilization in the Vegetable Kingdom”
- “The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals”
- “The Formation of Vegetable Mould, Through the Action of Worms”
- “The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication”
- Notable Family Members:
- son Sir George Darwin
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Charles Darwin (born February 12, 1809, Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England—died April 19, 1882, Downe, Kent) English naturalist whose scientific theory of evolution by natural selection became the foundation of modern evolutionary studies. An affable country gentleman, Darwin at first shocked religious Victorian society by suggesting that animals and humans shared a common ancestry. However, his nonreligious biology appealed to the rising class of professional scientists, and by the time of his death evolutionary imagery had spread through all of science, literature, and politics. Darwin, himself an agnostic, was accorded the ultimate British accolade of burial in Westminster Abbey, London. Darwin formulated ...(100 of 6405 words)