Studying medicine at Edinburgh university
Theology at Cambridge
Journey of the Beagle
The Beagle survey took five years, two-thirds of which Darwin spent on land. He carefully noted a rich variety of geological features, fossils and living organisms, and methodically collected an enormous number of specimens.This journey established him as a geologist.
The fossil record
Natural selection
The process by which favorable traits that are heritable become more common in successive generations of a population of reproducing organisms, and unfavorable traits that are heritable become less common.
Principle of Divergence
Species arose by common descent, as a result of divergence from a common stock.
Man evolved from apes/monkeys
Man/apes/monkeys evolved from common ancestor
Mentions origins of life in his book
Dosn't talk about creation