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Charles Robert Darwin
was an English naturalist.
He
was
born
in
Shrewsbury,
Shropshire,
England on 12 February
1809. The eight-year-old
Charles already had a
taste for natural history
and collecting when he
joined the day school run
by its preacher in 1817.
Darwin's early interest in
nature led him to neglect
his medical education
at the University of
Edinburgh.
Studies at the University of Cambridge encouraged his passion for
natural science.
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He established that all species of life have descended
over time from common ancestors, and proposed the
scientific theory that this branching pattern of evolution
resulted from a process that he called natural selection.
Evolution is the change in the inherited characteristics of biological
populations over successive generations. Evolutionary processes
give rise to diversity at every level of biological organization,
including species, individual organisms and molecules such as DNA
and proteins.
 Charles
Darwin was
the first to formulate a
scientific argument for
the theory of evolution
by means of natural
selection.
 more
offspring are produced than can possibly
survive
 traits vary among individuals, leading to different
rates of survival and reproduction
 trait differences are heritable.
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In the early 20th century,
genetics was integrated
with Darwin's theory of
evolution by natural
selection through the
discipline of population
genetics.
The
importance of natural
selection as a cause of
evolution was accepted
into other branches of
biology.
 Darwin
published his
theory of evolution with
compelling evidence in
his 1859 book On the
Origin
of
Species,
overcoming scientific
rejection of earlier
concepts
of
transmutation
of
species.