Charles Darwin

Charles Darwin introduced the theory of evolution to the world more than 200 years ago. He published a book entitled On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection. In 1841 Charles Darwin set out on a ship called the Beagle to explore the South American coast. On his voyage he took detailed notes and collected fossils, bones, plants, insects, and many other things. From his studies, he came to realize that the world isn't just 6,000 years old, as the book of Genesis states in the bible, but that it is over hundreds of thousands of years old. When he returns home, he put all of his evidence that he collected over his 5 year trip and seen that he discovered 69 different species of beetles as well as different species of butterflies, dragon flies, birds, and many other organisms including plants. He gave a skull head he found to Richard Owen he informed him that his finding was the skull of a ground sloth that is a species that is now extinct that lived over 10,000 years ago.

 

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