1. Charles Robert Darwin
Profile:
Born on 12 February 1809
Born at Shrewsbury , Shropshire , England (British)
Died on 19 April 1882 ( 73 years old )
Best known for contributions to evolutionary
theory.
Published his theory of evolution with compelling
evidence in his 1859 book On the Origin of Species

2. Known For:
 The Voyage of the Beagle
 On the Origin of the Species
 Evolution by the National Selection
 Common Descent

3. Personal Information
• He was born at their family home on The
Mount.
• Fifth of the sixth children of wealthy society
doctor and financier , Robert Darwin and
Susannah Darwin.
• A grandson of two prominent abolitionsts :
Erasmus Darwin and Josia Wedgewood

4. Personal Information
• At eight years old Charles Darwin had a taste
for natural history and collecting.
• His mother died on July 15 1817

5. early life ‘n’ education
Charles Darwin went to the best medical
school in the UK at that time, University of
Edinburgh Medical School on 1825.
He found lectures dull and boring.
Instead he learned taxidermy from John
Edmonstone . This neglect of medical studies
annoyed his father , who shrewdly sent him to
Chris college, Cambridge for a Bachelor of Arts
degree.

6. marriage
• He married Emma Darwin (who was his
cousin) on 1839 and had 10 children.
• William Erasmu Darwin, Anne Elizabeth
Darwin (who died at 10),Mary Eleanor Darwin
(who died before a month old),Harietta Emma
Darwin, George Howard Darwin, Horace
Darwin, Elizabeth Darwin, Francis Darwin,
Leonard Darwin, Charles Waring Darwin (who
died at 18 months old).

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• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Darwin