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Social Darwinism: The Origin Of Species By Charles Darwin

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Charles Robert Darwin was born on February 12th 1809. At age eight Charles already had a strong interest for natural history when he started day school, he was an intelligent child. Darwin’s Theory also known as Darwinism is the theory of the evolution of species by natural selection or the belief that the evolution of plant and animal life is controlled by a higher being, the process of evolution cannot be denied.

Darwin spent the summer of 1825 as an apprentice doctor, helping his father take care of the poor, even before Darwin began university he found lectures to be rather boring, and surgery to be too stressful, so he neglected to do his studies. This neglect made his father very upset.
In Darwin’s second year of university he had joined a natural-history club that he enjoyed. It challenge his views of things, and learned the religious concept of science. He discovered that black spores found in oyster shells were the eggs of a skate leach.
Charles was invited on a ship, but his father Robert Darwin didn’t want him going for the two years as he felt it was pointless, finally after he was allowed to go. The trip started on December 27 1831 and lasted almost five years, Darwin spent most of his time …show more content…

In the original copy of The Origin of Species, he talked about how natural selection could cause a land mammal to turn into a whale. As an example Charles used a Black bear, which are known to catch their food by swimming in the water with their mouths opened. Darwin was criticized so much by the public from all the hate he received that the part about the swimming bear was removed from all later copies of the book. Scientists now believe that Charles had the right idea but was just looking at the wrong

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