![]() Instead, he helped investigate marine invertebrates in the Firth of Forth with Robert Edmond Grant. He found the medical lectures dull, and the surgery distressing. ![]() Darwin’s early interest in nature led him to neglect his medical studies however. Darwin spent his early education in the local Shrewsbury School as a boarder, before moving to Edinburgh in 1825 to study medicine at the University. He was the grandson of two prominent abolitionists: Erasmus Darwin on his father's side, and Josiah Wedgwood on his mother's side. ![]() This theory of evolution was published in the 1859 book, On the Origin of Species, a text which has become a seminal work of modern science.ĭarwin was the fifth of six children of the wealthy society doctor and financier Robert Darwin, and his wife Susannah Darwin ( née Wedgwood). He is best known for his pioneering work in evolutionary theory establishing that all species of life have descended from common ancestors through a process of ‘natural selection’. Charles Robert Darwin was born on 12 February 1809, in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, UK. ![]()
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