Charles Darwin, who inspired and influenced many scientists, was a scientist and naturalist. He did not technically have a formal education, but Darwin’s only thought to never give up, pushed him through all the obstacles in front of him. He was awarded noticeable awards and achievements towards the end of his life. Darwin, born on February 12, 1809, was starting his path on to being a very famous naturalist/scientist, before Darwin was a scientist; he was living with his mother while his dad was living somewhere else at the time. He was the second youngest child in his family, Darwin and his six other siblings were doing just fine until his mother sadly passed away in the year 1817, at the time Darwin was only nine years old. The …show more content…
Not only was his father skeptical about the idea, but there were no space on “the Beagle” (the name of the ship). A few days before due date, one of the crew members gave notice to the captain and told him that he couldn’t make it, which gave Darwin the opportunity to take his place and to go on the voyage instead. Ironically, the captain didn’t really like “his nose,” meaning that the captain was really judgmental on getting strangers trust. He didn’t like how Darwin wrote in his journal most of the time either, which at the time Darwin was in the process of writing his autobiography. After a while the captain got used to Darwin and payed little attention to him. It took some pressure off of him and gave him more time to observe the outstanding finches. He started describing them in his journal on how they look by their beak, feathers, shape/size, what they eat, and their environment. When he got back from the voyage, Darwin was so interested in these birds that he started questioning why they were the way they were. He noticed for each environment they had different adaptations. Darwin was determined to find out why and how they were different but the same. Too determined in fact, his doctor actually told him to “lay off the work,” his health was getting bad do to all the stress and high blood pressure. Darwin’s father and his father’s father were classified as pretty big men, both averagely weighing more than 350 pounds to