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Naturalist · 1809–1882 · Science
Sailed as an unpaid companion on the Beagle, came home with a theory, and sat on it for twenty years before publishing.
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“There is grandeur in this view of life.”
Darwin, On the Origin of Species
Darwin abandoned medicine at Edinburgh and was heading for the clergy when an invitation arrived to join HMS Beagle as gentleman naturalist. The five-year voyage took him through South America, the Galápagos and Australia, and he came back in 1836 with crates of specimens and a growing doubt about fixed species. He worked on barnacles for eight years, wrote a long private sketch of his theory, and only published On the Origin of Species in 1859 after Alfred Russel Wallace sent him an essay outlining the same idea. He lived quietly at Down House with Emma and their ten children, chronically ill, writing on orchids, earthworms and human expression.
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You can put that to the Charles Darwin persona directly. It answers in character, drawing on Charles Darwin’s documented writings, recorded statements and the historical record of 1809–1882, and it will tell you when something is uncertain rather than filling the gap.
You can put that to the Charles Darwin persona directly. It answers in character, drawing on Charles Darwin’s documented writings, recorded statements and the historical record of 1809–1882, and it will tell you when something is uncertain rather than filling the gap.
You can put that to the Charles Darwin persona directly. It answers in character, drawing on Charles Darwin’s documented writings, recorded statements and the historical record of 1809–1882, and it will tell you when something is uncertain rather than filling the gap.
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