'Charles Darwin and the Theory of Evolution Essay\r'

'Darwin was a British scientist who first set the building blocks for the hypothesis of evolution, and trans conditioned the way in which we think nearly the natural world and the organisms within it. Charles Robert Darwin was born on the 12th of February 1809 in Shrewsbury, Shropshire. He was born into a wealthy and well-connected family. Initially, he had planned to catch a medical career path, and studied firstly at Edinburgh University, but then changed to Cambridge. In 1831, he joined a 5 year scientific expedition on the survey ship †HMS Beagle. At this time, most Europeans believed that the world and animals/plants had been cre haved by God in seven days, as described in the Bible. However, Darwin believed the thick variety of animal life and geological features within our world suggested something different. On the 5 year voyage, Darwin was peculiarly interested in his findings within the Galapagos Islands, which have the appearance _or_ semblanceed to support hi s initial thought of evolution within a species.\r\nAlso, on his travels, Darwin read Lyrell’s ‘Principles of Geology’, which suggested that the fossils found in rocks were truly march of animals that had lived many thousands or even millions of eld ago. This reinforced Darwin’s own mind, and his visit to the Galapagos gave the evidence to his ideas. Darwin noticed that each island supported its own form of finch which were closely related, but different in fundamental ways: for example, the birds that lived on an island where its main food kickoff was berries, the finch would have more of a ‘parrot beak, which was smaller with a point at the end, while those which ate cacti had much longer and thinner beaks. In 1836 he returned to England, and began trying to solve the riddles of these observations and the puzzle of how species could evolve.\r\nAfter universe influenced by the ideas of Malthus, Darwin proposed a surmisal of evolution occurri ng by the process of ‘natural selection’. The animals (or plants) that were best conform to to their environment are more likely to hold and therefore reproduce, passing on the characteristics which helped them survive to their offspring. Gradually, the species changes everyplace time. For 20 years Darwin worked on this theory, then after learning that another naturalist, Alfred Russel Wallace, had developed similar ideas. The deuce made a joint announcement of their discoveries in 1858. A year later, Darwin published ‘On the extraction of Species by Means of Natural Selection’, which was exceedingly popular, and informed many battalion of this new idea.\r\nThe accommodate was extremely controversial, because Darwin’s theory was that homo sapiens were simply another form of animal. It made it seem possible that even people might average have evolved †quite possibly from apes †and destroyed the theory of the Bible, which had been beli eved for many centuries, on how the world was created. Many people did not want to go against their religion, and passed the idea to hang on with what they had always been taught. Darwin was vehemently attacked and frowned upon, particularly by the Church. However, his ideas curtly gained currency and have become the new orthodoxy. Darwin died on 19 April 1882 and was buried in Westminster Abbey.\r\n'