Charles Darwin

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This paper provides a short biography of Charles Darwin. It also describes his major achievements in evolutionary biology. It examines how he spent most of his life studying the evolution of species and how, even though he was not the first person to theorize about evolution, he was the first to gather enough evidence that his theory could not be refuted.

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"Darwin mostly collected unique species to take back to England but also did a few small experiments. He observed not only that innumerable species had become extinct, but that there was a close relationship between the extinct species and living species. This exhibits Darwin's capacity to interpret facts and the faithfulness with which he stuck to Lyell's principle of seeking explanations of past events in the present. So he then concluded that the new species did not replace the old species but rather descended from them. The term he used was descent with modification. The problem was to determine how these modifications arise. That was to be the subject of his Origin of Species (Poulton, 1902)."

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