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Robert Waring Darwin FRS (30 May 1766 – 13 November 1848) was an English medical doctor, who today is best known as the father of the naturalist Charles Darwin. He was a member of the influential Darwin–Wedgwood family. Biography.
Charles Robert Darwin FRS FRGS FLS FZS JP (/ ˈ d ɑːr w ɪ n / DAR-win; 12 February 1809 – 19 April 1882) was an English naturalist, geologist, and biologist, widely known for his contributions to evolutionary biology.His proposition that all species of life have descended from a common ancestor is now generally accepted and considered a fundamental scientific concept.
May 29, 2024 · Charles Darwin (born February 12, 1809, Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England—died April 19, 1882, Downe, Kent) was an 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 ...
Robert Darwin was a wealthy doctor and the son of Erasmus Darwin, who himself had advanced evolutionary proposals in his widely read Zoonomia, or the Laws of Life (1796-1798). At age sixteen, Darwin followed in the footsteps of grandfather, father, and elder brother Erasmus and enrolled at Edinburgh medical school, where he came into contact ...
Darwin, Charles Robert (1809–1882), naturalist, geologist, and originator of the theory of natural selection, was born on 12 February 1809 at The Mount, Shrewsbury, the fifth child and second son of Robert Waring Darwin (1766–1848), Shrewsbury's principal physician, and Susannah Wedgwood (1765–1817).His sisters were Marianne, Caroline, Susan, and Emily Catherine, his brother Erasmus Alvey.
