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Charles Darwin (1809-82)

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Earth Explorer
02-01-1995
Charles Darwin (1809-82) and the Theory of Evolution

Few people in history have contributed more to our understanding of the living world than Charles Robert Darwin, the English naturalist.
The son of a wealthy medical doctor, Darwin had a lifelong passion for observing and collecting. However, nothing else in his early years suggested he had any remarkable talents. In fact, he seemed indifferent to much of what he studied in school. At prep school, Darwin studied classics (that meant studying ancient foreign languages, mainly Latin and Greek). At the University ...

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