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Nor a B arlow New Y ork Har court B rac e and Co 1958 p 87 Charles Da rwin to Asa Gr ay 22 May 1860 L etter 2813 D arw in Correspondenc Databa se httpwwwdarwinpr ojectac ukentry 2813 ar in o n E xpl ai nin g A da pta tio n a nd E vol uti on w ith. Radinka. Charles Darwin. Charles Darwin was born in February 1809 in Mount Shrewsbury UK. . He was educated in Shrewsbury School then sent to Edinburg University to study medicine. Two years later in 1827, he was beginning a degree in divinity (study of religion) at Cambridge. . How are these iguanas similar? . How are they different?. Do you think they are related? (Do they share a common ancestor?). Darwin’s Voyage. EQ: How did Darwin explain the differences between species on the Galapagos Islands and mainland South America?. Introduction. Charles Darwin was a biologist who lived during the 1800s. Scientific thinking was shifting (biology & geology). Evolution = the process of change over time. Darwin developed a theory that explains how modern organisms evolved over long periods of time through descent from common ancestors.. Born: 12. th . February, 1809, in Shrewsbury. Died: April 19. th. , 1882, in . D. owne, due to heart problems. In 1831, he set sail on the HMS Beagle for a 5-year voyage around the Earth. He married on January 29. EARLY THEORIES OF EVOLUTION. DARWIN, WALLACE, & . THE ORIGIN. DARWIN’S THEORIES OF EVOLUTION. WHAT EVOLUTION IS NOT. MODERN SYNTHESIS. BIOGEOGRAPHY. SCHOOLS OF SYSTEMATICS. Early theories of natural history and classification treated living things as immutable and were . Background Info: Charles Darwin. Set sail on the HMS . Beagle. . 5 year trip around the world. Naturalist: a person who studies the natural world. He wanted to learn about the living things he saw on the voyage . Charles Darwin (1809-1882). Charles Darwin—A Summary. British Naturalist. Sailed aboard the . H.M.S. Beagle in 1831. Observed the wide variety of different animals in the Galapagos Islands on this trip. Early scientists proposed ideas about evolution. . Evolution is the biological change process by which descendants come to differ from their ancestors.. A species is a group of organisms that can reproduce and have fertile offspring.. Charles Darwin. Charles Darwin was born in the mount, Shrewsbury and was an English naturalist, geologist and biologist. He was best known for the science of evolution. Charles lived in 3 places: Downe Kent, London and Shrewsbury. Sadly . & . Natural Selection. studied medicine at Edinburgh University (1825-1827) where the sight of blood and surgery without anesthetics repulsed him. studied to become a clergyman at Cambridge University (1827-1831). Week 9:. By Mackenzie and Emily. Michael Banton, . Racial Theories . (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998), Ch. 4, ‘Race as Subspecies’, pp. 81-116. ‘With the recognition that plant and animal populations were distinguished by the gene frequencies they had acquired in the course of evolution… a new foundation was laid for biological science’ (p. 116).. wallace. and was explained in book “ on the origin of species by means of Natural Selection . . Darwin put the theory based on his observations as he travelled round the world on the ship Beagle.. Adaptation. Adaptations are inherited traits that increase a group’s chance of . survival & reproduction. This type of finch has a thick beak .  adaptation for cracking open seeds. Variation. . The process by which organism change over time. Based on science, not opinion.. Darwin. :. Evolution is descent with modification. Evolution. :. changes through time. Species accumulate difference.