In his 1794 book Zoonomia Erasmus discussed the origin of development of life. Charles father Robert Waring Darwin was a successful and wealthy physician.
Darwin attended Shrewsbury school from 1818 to 1825 with hoped to become a doctor. Later in 1825 his father took him away from school and sent him and his brother to Edinburgh Medical School.
The theory of evolution is commonly linked with Charles Darwin’s publication of The Origin of Species’ in 1859. Many of his idea that Darwin put forth in his book had been discussed for at least a century.
The Origin of Species contributed to the theory was a clear statement of the process by which evolution occurs, which was called natural selection.
In 1831 Darwin set out on a round the world voyage on the ship H.M.S Beagle, serving as the ship’s naturalist. During this voyage Darwin began to accumulate data that resulted in his concept of evolution.
The Voyage of the Beagle is a title given to the book written and published in 1839 by Darwin as his Journal and Remarks, which brought him considerable fame and respect.
From his study of the similarities among existing species around the world, together with the similarities between living and fossil species, he gradually came to the conclusion that some species were related to one another through common lines of descent, a view that clearly challenged the biblical notion of a single Creation of all the various life forms in the world.
He proposed and provided scientific evidence that all species of life have evolved over time from one or a few common ancestors through the process of natural selection.
The term Darwinism almost by default, covered all kinds of evolutionism and unfairly eclipsed the world of others like Huxley, Wallace.
Darwin and his Theory
