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Charles Darwin

Charles Robert Darwin was a pioneer of science. He was an English naturalist and geologist, best known for his contributions to the science of evolution. He established that all species of life have descended from common ancestors. His scientific theory of this branching pattern of evolution resulted from a process that he called natural selection and selective breeding.

Darwin is one of the (or the most) influential figures in human history. Darwin spent most of his life as a naturalist who kept to himself. But in 1859, at the age 50, his On the Origin of Species changed the scientific community forever. He had to overcome scientific rejection but by the 1870s, the scientific community and much of the general public had accepted evolution as a fact. Darwin’s scientific discovery is the theory that explains the diversity of life.