About Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin
Charles Robert Darwin (1809-1882) was an English naturalist, who realized and demonstrated that all species of life have evolved over time from common ancestors through the process he called natural selection. He published his ideas in the seminal work, The Origin of Species, in 1859 based on evidence he had accumulated on the voyage of the Beagle during the 1830s.
The fact that evolution occurs became accepted by the scientific community and much of the general public in Darwin’s lifetime, while his theory of natural selection came to be widely seen as the primary explanation of the process of evolution in the 1930s, and now forms the basis of modern evolutionary theory. Darwin’s scientific discovery remains the foundation of biology, as it provides a unifying logical explanation for the diversity of life.
