1. Made by Sveta Medoeva CS-2
Charles Darwin
Made by Sveta Medoeva CS-2

2. Charles Robert Darwin was an English naturalist
Charles Robert Darwin was an English naturalist. He was born in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England on 12 February 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.

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. 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.

6. Charles Darwin was the first to formulate a scientific argument for the theory of evolution by means of natural selection.

7. Evolution by natural selection is a process that is inferred from three facts about populations:
more offspring are produced than can possibly survive
traits vary among individuals, leading to different rates of survival and reproduction
trait differences are heritable.

8. 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.

9. 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.

10. By the 1870s the scientific community and much of the general public had accepted evolution as a fact.