Charles Darwin was born on 12 February, 1809 in Shrewsbury, England. His father, Robert Darwin, was a physician, the son of Erasmus Darwin, a poet, philosopher, and naturalist. Charles's mother, Susannah Wedgwood Darwin, died when he was eight years old. At age sixteen, Darwin left Shrewsbury to study medicine at Edinburgh University. Repelled by the sight of surgery performed without anesthesia, he eventually went to Cambridge Univeristy to prepare to become a clergyman in the Church of …showed first 75 words of 476 total…

…showed last 75 words of 476 total…Darwin's theory in many aspects. I believe that there were a few different species on one continent, and when it split apart, new environment were created. All the different species had to adapt to their new environments in order to survive and reproduce. That is why now biologists are able to find fossils of one species on one continent and find almost the exact same fossil on another continent. This concludes my report on evolution.