Charles Robert Darwin was English naturalist, geologist, and biologist who is best known for his discovery in the theory of evolution. Charles got to the place of infamy in his life with the help family and childhood, education and training, career discoveries, and his major accomplishments. Through these things, our modern generation now knows Charles Darwin as a major impactor to the scientific world as well as a contributor to people’s thoughts and discussions on how us humans came to be.
Charles Darwin was born in February 12, 1809 into a very wealthy family of 6 in Shrewsbury. His father Robert darwin was a medical doctor and his mother Susanna was the daughter of Josiah Wedgwood who was the founder of the famous Wedgewood Pottery. He grew up in the English countryside that was untouched by the Industrial Revolution. This lack of …show more content…
Butler’s Boarding School. Along with his studies, Darwin also spent a lot of his time as an apprentice doctor for father. During this period he learned many skills from the craft and also got to have some hands on experience while he would help the poor of Shrewsbury. After his time in boarding school, Darwin went to the University of Edinburgh Medical School. Though this may have seemed like a golden apportury for a long and wealthy career, Darwin found the lectures boring and he thought that surgery was very nerve racking. Because of this. Darwin, for one of the first times, neglected his studies. Soon following this decline of studies, Darwin’s father caught on and then transferred him to the University of Cambridge where he would go to by a parson, or a priest. For the second time, Charles Darwin didn’t like what he was sent to study and instead pursued natural sciences. After studying this concept for a while, Darwin finally got his first major exploration opportunity, a survey voyage on the HMS Beagle. This mapping trip sparked the beginning of Darwin’s