I post you the biography of Charles Darwin and two links about him that I hope you like:

BIOGRAPHY OF CHARLES DARWIN

Charles Robert Darwin was a British naturalist that was born in Shrewsbury on 12th February of 1809. He studied Medicine at University of Edinburgh Medical School and Theology at Cambridge University.

His passion for natural science took him on a voyage from 1831 to 1836 on HSM Beagle. In his travel he visited South America, Pacific Islands, New Zealand, Australia and South Africa. The notes and the observations of this trip, emphasizing his visit to Galapagos Islands, were the basis for his further work.

In the beginning, Darwin only shared his theories with some of his colleagues. But on 1st July of 1858, he decided to show, with Alfred Wallace, his article Natural Selection at the Linnaen Society of London. Months later, he finished preparing his most famous book: On the origin of Species by means of Natural Selection. The publication of this book was the beginning of the Darwinism, the human evolution’s theory. This theory created a great controversy and was criticized by the scientific community and the Anglican Church, but Darwin was kept away from any polemic.

Some of others books that Darwin wrote was Insectivorous Plants, The Effects of Cross and Self Fertilization in the Vegetable Kingdom, The Power of Movement in Plants…

Charles Darwin died on 19th April 1882 in Kent, England. He was buried in Westminster Abbey, close to John Herschel and Isaac Newton.

This link is about his life: http://www.aboutdarwin.com/

And this about his works: http://darwin-online.org.uk/

Martina