Question

2. Describe Darwin's childhood and early career pursuits.

Answer 1

The childhood and early career of Charles Robert Darwin is discussed below.

Explanation:

Charles Robert Darwin was born on 12 February 1809 in Shrewsbury, Shropshire. He was the fifth of six children of wealthy society doctor and financier Robert Darwin and Susannah Darwin. His grandfathers Erasmus Darwin and Josiah Wedgwood were both prominent abolitionists of the recent times.

Darwin started his career as an apprentice doctor, helping his father treat the poor of Shropshire, before he started to go to the University of Edinburgh Medical School. He found the lectures dull there and in his second year at the university he joined the Plinian Society, a student natural-history group. His father then sent him for a Bachelors of Arts degree which also he couldn't peruse.

After a long fight, he went on his famous voyage on HMS Beagle around the world where he collected his data and then gave his hypothesis in his book named '' On the Origin of Species by means of Natural Selection and Preservation of the Favoured Race in the Struggle for Life''

Answer 2

Charles Darwin was born to a physician and his wife from Wedgefood family in 1809. He was a naturalist whose life changed on the Voyage of Beagle.

Explanation:

Charles Darwin was born in 1809 and was acclaimed for his vast contribution to study of evolution.

His mother passed away when he was only 8. His father was a physician.

Charles Darwin's love and curiosity for nature made him leave his medical education.

He is one of the most influenced personality.

He proposed the Theory that all species have evolved by a common ancestor over a period of time.

He became a marine investigator after studying the same from Christ's College, Cambridge University.

His historical Beagle voyage of five years made him extensively observe the varied flora and fauna. This was the turning point in his early career establishment.

The fossils he collected on the Beagle voyage and his observations made him establish Natural Selection theory.

He studied human evolution in 1871. His famous works include The Descent of Man, and selection in Relation to Sex and by The Expression of emotions in Man and animals. His research on plants was recorded in a book named formation of vegetable mould.