Everyone knows Charles Darwin, one of the greatest scientists in the history of mankind. It was he who created the theory of evolution, explaining how all life on earth appeared. His scientific research ahead of his time, despite the fact that he had enough critics during his lifetime. Which, of course, in no way prevents putting Darwin on a par with the most significant scientific minds of our civilization.
His craving for science was perhaps hereditary. His grandfather was a well-known naturalist, although, of course, his grandson glorified the surname Darwin. In his youth, Charles Darwin assisted his father in those operations. His father was a surgeon. A passion for history woke up in a future scientist in childhood. At the age of eight, he discovered the natural history, and was carried away by it so that in the end he devoted his whole life to science. Charles Darwin studied very mediocre, not achieving good results in subjects that did not interest him. Teachers believed that he was no good at all. Throughout his life, the scientist advocated the abolition of slavery in the United States. Charles Darwin was a member of an extravagant club whose members were committed to trying as many kinds of foods of plant and animal origin as possible. During one of his expeditions, Darwin probably broke all records, having reached affordable culinary exoticism on the shores of others. The scientist was married to his cousin. The Darwin Correspondence project, which has been operating since the mid-70s of the last century, is engaged in the classification and publication of letters from a scientist. Fifteen volumes have already been published.
Darwin had more or less constant correspondence with two thousand people, and in his life sent almost fifteen thousand letters. The creator of the theory of evolution was an agnostic all his life, and, contrary to popular myth, he did not turn to religion in old age. The expedition to the shores of South America, which included Charles Darwin, dragged on for as long as 5 years. The great scientist was born on the same day as Abraham Lincoln, the first president of the United States and the man who abolished slavery. To this day, plants that are descendants of those that Darwin brought from his South American research expedition grow in the Royal Botanic Gardens in London. Darwin corresponded with Karl Marx. The founding father of communism, by the way, praised his scientific work. At the Academy of Sciences of St. Petersburg, Charles Darwin was an honorary corresponding member. In his youth, he was fond of chemistry, but quickly cooled down to this science. Darwin is the author of several works on geology. At the same time, he always treated her coolly. In his youth, Charles Darwin thought about becoming a surgeon, like his father, but refused this thought, because he could not endure the suffering that the doctor had to inflict on the patient in those years when medicine was not yet as developed as it is now.
