Charles Robert Darwin (1809–1882)
Charles Darwin set out on a voyage when he was 22 years old. The
five-year voyage took him to South America and the islands off its coast.
The studies that he conducted during this voyage were to change forever
the way we look at the variety of life on earth. Interestingly, after he got
back to England, he never left its shores again. He stayed at home and
conducted various experiments that led him to formulate his hypothesis
that evolution took place due to natural selection. He did not know the
mechanism whereby variations arose in the species. He would have
been enlightened by Mendel’s experiments, but these two gentlemen
did not know of each other or their work!
We often associate Darwin solely with the theory of evolution. But he was an accomplished
naturalist, and one of the studies he conducted was to do with the role of earthworms in
soil fertility.
Charles Darwin set out on a voyage when he was 22 years old. The
five-year voyage took him to South America and the islands off its coast.
The studies that he conducted during this voyage were to change forever
the way we look at the variety of life on earth. Interestingly, after he got
back to England, he never left its shores again. He stayed at home and
conducted various experiments that led him to formulate his hypothesis
that evolution took place due to natural selection. He did not know the
mechanism whereby variations arose in the species. He would have
been enlightened by Mendel’s experiments, but these two gentlemen
did not know of each other or their work!
We often associate Darwin solely with the theory of evolution. But he was an accomplished
naturalist, and one of the studies he conducted was to do with the role of earthworms in
soil fertility.
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