10. Who was Charles Darwin?

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Charles Darwin was an
naturalist born in 1809 considered
the father of theory of evolution. At
endof the year 1831, turning
23 years of , Darwin embarked as
volunteer the ship the
Beagle a five year expedition the
South American coastand Pacific.
During the voyage, most famous
passage was stop in the Galapagos
, Darwin collected data that
used to write his “The
Origin of Species” (). In this book
the of the common ancestry
all living beings and natural
selection as the that drives the
diversity species were described.
Darwin in 1882.

(The original ofthe most famous
book by Darwin was “On
Origin of Species by of Natural
Selection”.)