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Charles Darwin's Into The Jungle

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Maddi Van Meter
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Into the Jungle

Charles Darwin is excellently known as a naturalist in the discovery of evolution theory. Charles was not a perfect student growing up. His father expected him to follow his footsteps and attend medical school and become a doctor. However, Charles led his own path and succeeded at Cambridge. Once he had graduated with his bachelor’s degree, his professor, also mentor, offered him a voyage around the world on the HMS Beagle. Darwin accepted the offer and soon started his travels on December 27th, 1831. His journey from then lasted for five years. Darwin spent half of a decade searching the geology and the zoology of the lands he visited. He spent his time staying on South America and Galapagos Islands. …show more content…

Once he returned from his voyage in 1836, he decided to settle down and begin a family. He began to summarize and write his discoveries. However, it took him many years to publish his writings because he believed that what he found would become difficult to convert others to believe what he observed. “Charles knew this was difficult to explain, even more difficult to persuade others of, and as it violated the doctrine of the immutability of species and challenged creation-based explanations, very dangerous territory.” (Chapter 1, page 27) Darwin did not want to start controversy with others thoughts and beliefs. He also wanted to have complete evidence before taking any further steps. Although, he knew in time he would share his writings, he felt that it was unnecessary at the time.
Alfred Wallace and Charles Darwin are both known as the historical discoverers of evolution. They both sailed to many places finding the natural life and how it is formed. Darwin took nearly twenty years to publish his writings due to the lack of. On the other hand, Alfred Wallace spent those many years to different areas and finding new sightings. Darwin and Wallace had similar viewpoints about natural ways and were revealed around the same time. Both shared the same idea, but Wallace wanted to know the truth of the natural

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