Charles Robert Darwin (12 February 1809 – 19 April 1882) was an English naturalist, geologist and biologist, best known for his contributions to the science of evolution. He proposed that evolution could be explained in part through natural and sexual selection. Prompted by awareness that Alfred Russel Wallace was developing similar theories he published his own sooner than he had originally intended. This theory is now an integral component of biological science.
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Charles Robert Darwin
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Charles R. Darwin
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It is easy to specify the individual objects of admiration in these grand scenes; but it is not possible to give an adequate idea of the higher feelings of wonder, astonishment, and devotion, which fill and elevate the mind.
Mere chance … alone would never account for so habitual and large an amount of difference as that between varieties of the same species.
Often a cold shudder has run through me, and I have asked myself whether I may have not devoted myself to a fantasy.
