Info Charles Darwin (jan 1, 1809 – jan 1, 1809)

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-Important works:
The Voyage of the Beagle
On the Origin of Species

-Short info: English naturalist (natural history), geologist and biologist. Most famous for his contributions to the science of evolution.

-Darwin on the evolution:
All species on earth have descended from common ancestors in a very slow proces (this takes ages and ages). This happens when there's a change within a population of the same species due to a shift in the balance of hereditary characteristics. --> this is spread by natural selection/survival of the fittest (since it is advantageous). Eventually you can't speak of the same species no more.

-Copernical revolution:
Darwin's theory showed the world must have been much older than contemporary geological theories accounted for.

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