Charles Robert Darwin was born on the 12^th of February 1809 and died on the 19^th of April 1882. He got into science at a very young age when he was studying medicine at Edinburgh University and became an English naturalist and became well known by other scientist all over the world for his work. His five-year voyage on the Beagle established him as a geologist and he became famous for the theory that he proposed which was that all species have evolved over time from one or a few common ancestors through the process of Natural selection. The fact that evolution occurs became accepted by the scientific community and the general public in his lifetime, while his theory of natural selection came to be widely seen as the primary explanation of the process of evolution in the 1930s, and now forms the basis of modern evolutionary theory. Simply, Darwin’s scientific discovery formed the basis of modern biology and provides strong logical explanations for the diversity of life.  

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