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The Life of Charles Darwin
Title: The Life of Charles Darwin
Category: Science & Technology / Biology
Details: Words: 708 | Pages: 3.0 (approximately 235 words/page)
The Life of Charles Darwin
Charles Robert Darwin was born in Shrewsbury, England on February 12, 1809, the son of Robert Waring Darwin. Darwin was the fifth out of seven children of a wealthy English family. Darwin's mother died in July 1817, when he was about 8 years old.
Darwin never did well in school. Darwin attended school at Shrewsbury from 1818 to 1825. Darwin was not doing well in school so his father took him out in 1825 and sent him to Edinburgh University with his …showed first 75 words of 708 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 708 total…are known as Darwinism. The word Darwinism refers to evolution by means of natural selection, simply that the world is an evolving thing.
Darwin wrote many other books on biology including The Descent of Man, and the Power of Movement in Plants.
He died in Downe on April 19, 1882 and was buried in Westminster Abbey near Charles Lyell and Isaac Newton. Darwin has been said to be one of
the greatest figures in biology ('Darwin', Grolier 3).
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