Charles Darwin

1809 - 1882

Titles on this disk:

• author: The Origin of Species by means of natural selection or the preservation of favored races in the struggle for life, vol. 1
• author: The Origin of Species by means of natural selection or the preservation of favored races in the struggle for life, vol. 2

Quotation:

• (21 September, 2009) Charles Darwin on life as a spontaneous order which emerged by the operation of natural laws (1859)

About this person:

Darwin studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh and then theology at Cambridge before deciding to travel on the H.M.S. Beagle to observe first hand the distribution and change in structure of animal and plant life in many parts of the world, notably South America. From the material he gathered from this voyage he developed the idea that life evolved over time from common ancestors by a process he called “natural selection.”