Charles Darwin was an English naturalist born in 1809 in Shrewsbury who transformed biology through the theory of evolution by natural selection. After studying medicine briefly in Edinburgh and ...

"I was born at Shrewsbury on February 12th, 1809. I have heard my Father say that he believed that persons with powerful minds generally had memories extending far back to a very early period of life.

When on board H.M.S. ‘Beagle,’ as naturalist, I was much struck with certain facts in the distribution of the inhabitants of South America, and in the geological relations of the present to the past ...

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