The Influential Charles Darwin

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This paper discusses how, out of many scientists during the 19th century, Charles Darwin greatly challenged the status quo with his revolutionary theories of evolution and natural selection. It looks at how,, after a humble start, Charles Robert Darwin rose to challenge the status quo with his revolutionary theories and how many of his most controversial theories ended up by replacing the commonly accepted ideas of the time and are now accepted as simple facts of life. It shows how without the hard work and research of Darwin, we would still be unaware of the reasons why different people and different generations have certain features, and,most importantly, where we, as a human race, come from.

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"Darwin was more comfortable at Cambridge than he was at Edinburgh. Author Janet Browne claims, "Darwin came to feel at home, relaxed and confident among people mostly from the same kind of background as himself people with similar professional aspirations and familiar, if conventional, social graces" (91). Darwin spent his first year at Cambridge uneventfully, but over the summer, he began to regret missing out on the "college experience". During his second year at Cambridge, Charles had a rather hard time settling in and started heading for failure, but he managed to pull himself back up in the third year and save his degree. A reputable author describes Darwin's last few weeks at school: "Darwin's final examinations were scheduled for January 1831. Study and anxiety made him miserable for weeks beforehand, but when the results were posted, he ranked 10th in a class of 178" (Stefoff 39)."

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