Charles Darwin was born in Shrewsburry, England on February 12, 1809. He is the son of Robert Waring Darwin, a physician. Darwin showed little interest in his education at Shrewsburry School and in medical studies at Edinburgh University (1825-27). He decided to turn away from becoming a physician after witnessing several operations performed without anesthesia. At the same time he began to be interested in geology and in natural history. He was sent to study for Holy …showed first 75 words of 473 total…

…showed last 75 words of 473 total…also did supplemental treatises like The Fertilization of Orchids, The Variation of Plants and Animals Under Domestication, The Descent Man and Selection in Relation to Sex, and others. The last one he did was The Formations of Vegetable Mold Through Action of Worms in 1881. The next year Darwin died in Downe on April 19,1882, and he was buried in Westminster Abbey. He has been praised as one of the greatest figures in the history of biology.