Charles Darwin: Theory of Natural Selection

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Charles Darwin was a very important man in history because of his incredible findings. With his discoveries he came up with the Theory of Natural Selection. He traveled to the Galapagos Island (1837) in a ship called the H.M.S Beagle, captained by Fitz Roy. When he got there he noticed that animals that were the same, in one island, they had a different feature than in a different island. By studying the animals and fossils, he came up with his theory, Animals vs. Environment (Those who adapt succeed, those who don’t, die)

When Darwin came up with his ideas, the society around his him was very closed minded, basically, if you believed in anything outside the bible, you were not Christian and you were killing God. Darwin knew his idea was correct, but he could not present it to the people because they would think bad about him and won’t like him. Darwin went through a lot of anguish while developing his theory. Some reasons of his anguish were that people in that time will hate his idea and won’t accept it, his wife was very Christian and would think the same about him and might even get divorced. One of the events that most affected him was the death of his older daughter, and that another man had also concluded with the same ideas as him . 22 years after his discovery, he wrote a book, which his wife accepted, and since then, the whole world knows about it.

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