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C h a r l e s D a r w i n
Charles Darwin was born in Shrewsbury, England, in 1809. At university, he studied geology and natural history. He became friends with Professor J Henslow, who obtained him as a naturalist aboard the HMS //Beagle//, of which was sailing to South America and the South Sea Islands to carry out coastline surveys. The voyage took 5 years, of which Darwin studied thousands of animals and plants on the journey, providing him with material to study for the rest of his life-long career.

Some people firmly believed the biblical theory of creation. Apparently God created all of the animals and plants as they looked ttoday in a week. The captain of the ship wanted a 'well-educated and scientific person' to make observations to prove the correctness of this pount of view. During Darwin's studies, however, he began to suspect the biblical theory incorrect.

Darwin returned to England in 1836. By 1846, he had published a journal describing his voyage. He began to seriously think that it was evolution that created the way animals and plants are today, and wrote 2 essays about it. He didn't publish these, worrying that these would prove the biblical theory wrong, and possibly create an uproar of all of those believers.

In 1858, Darwin heard of another naturalist who believed in the process of evolution. A year later, Darwin published a book called //Origin of Species//, a full account of the evolution theory. It wa