Charles Darwin was born on the 12 of February 1809. He was an English Naturalist who studied animals and their evolution over time. He published the famous book "The Origin of Species Through Natural Selection". Darwin went on an expedition to the Galapagos Islands and began to study many different animals for example birds. He began to ask himself why some of the brids had different beaks, or why some turtules neck would stick up and others would point down. All of this is because of the enviroment in which they live in and the circumstances in which they must obtain food. This was all very difficult to explain becuase this all went against what the church would say. He would say that dinosaurs existed but according to the bible god created humans, and all animals and dinosaurs do not exist. His wife was also extremely religious and so these were all things that made it very difficult for him to prove his point. Basically darwin was "killing god" with his theory, and so that mad it very unpopular because he was going against the church with what he was saying so he had major stress on himself. Also he had to prove everything to the last detail so that maybe some people would believe his words that were speaking against the church.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/evolution/darwin/origin/
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