Charles Darwin Research Paper

Dustin Priest

August 10, 2014

Charles Darwin paper

PSYC 490 Charles Darwin was a naturalist and a thinker. His observations and ideas shook the foundation of his world and we can still feel the tremors from it even today. Through observation he was able to see the living world in a way that had never been seen before. This along with his mechanism for evolution finally gave man an explanation for how things came to be that wasn’t biblical. This explanation forever changed the world. It shook the very foundations of people’s beliefs and created a world where we no longer need religion to explain how we came to be. To begin with Charles Darwin was a medical school dropout who then through a series of voyages and observations in his life

These works became some of the most respected and accurate understandings of the process of life and is the basis of modern evolution. Darwin, was born on the 12th of February 1809 and was the fifth of six children. Early on he was interested in nature and spent most his time out observing. But it was his father who wanted something different for Charles. It was lucky that despite his dad’s wishes for him to become interested in medicine that he found other interests. Robert Grant a lecturer and radical evolutionist was Darwin’s mentor, he taught him the science of marine invertebrates. Darwin, who wanted to further examine the topic, took interest in a course of zoology but found it ultimately dull. The tasks of the field of medicine that were placed upon him could not be handled as he could not stand the sight of blood or the primitive method of surgery, he enjoyed medicine just not the anatomy side to it. Through his displeasure at Edinburgh, his father admitted him into Christ College, Cambridge in 1828, he was taught as an Anglican gentleman and “became a passionate amateur naturalist”. (Wyhe) In the year 1831, a rare opportunity arose for the amateur naturalist, one that would help to establish the theory that would put Darwin in the history books

He contributed his whole life to his theory even up to his death in April 1882. Darwin lived in a society that was greatly ruled by religion, creationism was at its peak in English society. Science was rejected significantly as it mainly went against the views of religion. However, he was still greatly interested in science, and through the influence of his father, he studied greatly in this field. The knowledge of many scientists, who were his colleagues and friends such as Charles Lyell, influenced his knowledge of the world and geology and other aspects of science. Evolution is the foundation of modern evolution and modern biology and has affected the world in large or even in minor details. Not many believed in his theory, and were greatly insulted by his information that was presented, especially many Christian and religious individuals. And this cause a new debate all around the