I got an A+ on it "Great Paper" and "Good Work" Hugh Membrino Biology Charles Darwin Report Chareles Darwin and the Theory of Evolution Charles Darwin lived from 1809-1882, although Darwin has been dead for more than a century, people are still interpreting, defending, or criticizing his theories of evolution. Before he became England's greatest biologist, he was such an indifferent student that his father declared, 'You care for nothing but shooting, dogs, and rat-catching, …showed first 75 words of 688 total…

…showed last 75 words of 688 total…His grandfather, Erasmus Darwin, had published several books containing ideas much like Lamarck's theory of use and disuse. He felt, however, that early writers on the subject had speculated too much and had collected too few facts. As a result, they failed to convince the scientific world that evolution had actually taken place. They also failed to give a reasonable explanation of how changes might have produced the different organisms found upon the Earth today.