Who is charles darwin?

Question

Charles Darwin

Answer 1

A scientist who studied evolution and wrote 'Origin of Species'.

Answer 2

Where have you been not to know who Charles Darwin is? He was an Englishman who formulated the theory of evolution. It's the idea that plants and animals change, or adapt, EVOLVE, over generations, to cope with their shifting invironment. Darwin, in fact, documented that such is the case by spending years in the Gallopigos (I probably misspelled that) Islands studying the plant and animal life there. He quite literally proved his case for change, for evolution, taking place. Where his notion becomes theory is in trying to apply it to the origins of life and carry it through to modern man. For example, according to science, when the earth cooled after its formation, pools of water formed. Other theories suggest how it happed, but at some point life, in the form of single cell organisms, showed up the water. Supposedly, then, over a long period of time, these individual cells evolved into muli-cell organisms, and so on, until fish and aquatic plants appeared. The next thing you know, the aquatic plants evolved to successfully grow on land. One or another species of fish gave birth to offspring with the beginnings of legs until a few generations later they had evolved into anphibians. By the same process, came land animals, which evolved further and further until you get to the kinds of creatures you see in zoos today. The evidence for this is in fossel remains that scientists point to and make compelling arguments with, but cannot claim to absolute proof. The big snag comes from Darwin's claim that man decended from apes, which no only can't be proven, it pisses of the God fearing something awful.

I guess I answered you question in the first sentence or two, but what the man did is facinating, and to know who he was it's necessary to know a little of what he was about. If what I put down is too long to mess with, I'm sorry.

Answer 3

Charles Darwin was a British naturalist and the author of 'The Origin of Species', often classed as the most controversial book ever written as it's subject of evolution and natural selection conflicts with religious belief.

He was born (not far from me) in Shrewsbury, Feb.12th 1809. Type his name into google and get more information on him than you can process!

Answer 4

Charles Robert Darwin (12 February 1809 – 19 April 1882) was a British naturalist who achieved lasting fame by producing considerable evidence that species originated through evolutionary change, at the same time proposing the scientific theory that natural selection is the mechanism by which such change occurs. This theory is now considered a cornerstone of biology.

Darwin developed an interest in natural history while studying first medicine, then theology, at university. Darwin's observations on his five-year voyage on the Beagle brought him eminence as a geologist and fame as a popular author. His biological finds led him to study the transmutation of species and in 1838 he conceived his theory of natural selection. Fully aware that others had been severely punished for such "heretical" ideas, he confided only in his closest friends and continued his research to meet anticipated objections. However, in 1858 the information that Alfred Russel Wallace had developed a similar theory forced early joint publication of the theory.

His 1859 book On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or The Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life (usually abbreviated to The Origin of Species) established evolution by common descent as the dominant scientific explanation of diversification in nature. He was made a Fellow of the Royal Society, continued his research, and wrote a series of books on plants and animals, including humankind, notably The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex and The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals.

In recognition of Darwin's pre-eminence, he was buried in Westminster Abbey, close to John Herschel and Isaac Newton.

Answer 5

Charles Darwin was a guy who figured out after 3 years of sailing on the ship "Beagle" that cause and effect can apply to biologic items.

Is he right? On his death bed Darwin essentially recanted his ideas and accepted Christ as his savior.

Answer 6

He changed the theory of how we evolve
People thought that we changed because our parents did- like girraffes strecthed their necks in their life so they're childrens would be longer too
But Darwin realised its down to survival of the fttest, only those with the long necks survived so all the giraffes that lived did aswell!
Theres my GCSE biology coming out!

Answer 7

One of my Dad's Ships was named after him, along with the Chalenger, Discovery (which are both NASA's Shuttles) and the new James Cook which is still being built. They are all massive Royal Research Ships, who are owned by The National Environment Research Council, and are based at the Southampton Oceanography Centre in the UK. My Dad is the Chief Engineer on them.

Answer 8

Who WAS Charles Darwin. He's dead.

Answer 9

Darwin was a man who thought he came from a monkey.

Answer 10

The question pertains to biology more than physics.

Darwin wrote several books, one of which "Origin of species" which put forth the Theory of Evolution. He lived in the latter part of the 1800s.