WHO IS CHARLES DARWIN?

Pictured: Naturalist Charles Darwin Charles Robert Darwin was born in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, the fifth of six children of wealthy and well-connected parents. One of his grandfathers was Erasmus Darwin, a doctor whose book ‘Zoonomia’ had set out a radical and highly controversial idea, that one species could 'transmute' into another. In 1825, Charles Darwin studied at Edinburgh University, one of the best places in Britain to study science. Darwin was criticised by the Church and some of the press as people were shaken by the idea that humans descended from apes Wallace arrived at the theory of natural selection independently and wanted Darwin's advice on how to publish.