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Date of Birth
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12-February-1809
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Place of Birth
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The Mount, Shrewsbury
(United Kingdom)
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Nationality
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United Kingdom
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Also know as
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Charles Robert Darwin, Darwin, Charles, تشارلز روبرت داروين, ΚάÏολος ΡοβÎÏτος ΔαÏβίνος, Charles Robert Darwin, Charles Robert Darwin, Charles Robert Darwin, Darwin, Charles, Charles Robert Darwin, L'home que passeja amb Henslow, Charles Darwin
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Profession
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Naturalist, Biologist, Geologist, Scientist, Writer
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Quotes
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- There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.
- “It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.â€
- "It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change."
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Charles Robert Darwin, FRS was an English naturalist and geologist, best known for his contributions to evolutionary theory. 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 much of the general 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. In modified form, Darwin's scientific discovery is the unifying theory of the life sciences, explaining the diversity of life.
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