Charles Darwin

Charles Darwin (1809–1882) was born in Shrewsbury, England, into a distinguished family of scientists and freethinkers. He studied medicine at Edinburgh and theology at Cambridge before embarking, at the age of twenty-two, on the five-year voyage of HMS Beagle that would transform his understanding of the natural world. The specimens and observations he gathered—particularly in the Galápagos Islands—provided the foundation for his theory of evolution by natural selection, which he developed over two decades of painstaking research at his home in Down House, Kent. This author hub collects 1 work in the Canon Compass ranking, led by On the Origin of Species.