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2009 Sees The 200th Anniversary Of The Birth Of Charles Darwin

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« on: January 12, 2009, 01:07:46 pm »









Born

12 February 1809(1809-02-12)
Mount House,
Shrewsbury,
Shropshire,
England



Died

19 April 1882 (aged 73)
Down House,
Downe,
Kent,
England
 


Residence

England



Nationality

British



Fields

Naturalist

 

Institutions

Royal Geographical Society



Alma mater

University of Edinburgh

University of Cambridge



Academic advisors

Adam Sedgwick

John Stevens Henslow

 

Known for

The Voyage of the Beagle

On The Origin of Species

Natural selection



Influences

Charles Lyell



Influenced

Thomas Henry Huxley

George John Romanes



Notable awards

Royal Medal (1853)

Wollaston Medal (1859)

Copley Medal (1864)



Religious stance

Church of England, though Unitarian family background,

Agnostic after 1851.

 
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Notes

He was a grandson of Erasmus Darwin and
a grandson of Josiah Wedgwood and

married his cousin Emma Wedgwood.
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