Darwin was never good with bird species so he just killed them and brought their preserved bodies to an ornithologist to help him figure out similarities between the birds. The ornithologist was John Gould, and he found out that the birds were actually twelve different species of finches and that Darwin did not collect a mixture or finches and blackbirds. Charles Darwin’s first big accomplishment was for his work on barnacles for which he received the Royal Society’s Royal medal in 1853. (Charles Darwin – English Naturalist and Philosopher- Biography) With the barnacles Darwin was able to find “homologies” that theorized part of his idea that began with the finches. He liked writing about geology and had already published three geological by this time, but it would take six years until he published the book that he would become his most popular and most debated work of his career. (Charles Darwin – English Naturalists and Philosopher – …show more content…
There was a lot of discussion about it, though. Charles Darwin took extra care to speak of common descent and not evolution. After this, he went on to publish other works after his tremendous success with Origin of Species. He was pleased when he was awarded with the Copley Medal five years after he first published Origin. The impact that Charles Darwin’s work had on the world of evolutionary science is colossal. Evolution has remodeled how everything in biology is observed and analyzed. Darwin’s concept of evolution through natural selection has important meaning to it. This idea could be used to picture how a few small changes can build up over a period of time and make it possible to explain how something in a plant or animal developed. (Charles Darwin – English Naturalist and Philosopher –