Following the inception of Charles Darwin's theory of natural selection in 1838, the development of Darwin's theory to explain the "mystery of mysteries" of how new species originated was his "prime h
Darwin's first sketch of an evolutionary tree from his First Notebook on Transmutation of Species (1837)
The Darwins lived in Gower Street in London.
In 1842 they moved to Down House in rural Kent.
In 1846 Darwin rented land from his neighbour John Lubbock to plant woodland and lay out the "sandwalk" at Down House which became his usual "Thinking Path".
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Charles Robert Darwin was an English naturalist, geologist, and biologist, widely known for his contributions to evolutionary biology. His proposition that all species of life have descended from a co
Darwin, c. 1854
A chalk drawing of the seven-year-old Darwin in 1816, with a potted plant, by Ellen Sharples. Part of a double portrait showing him together with his sister Catherine.
A bicentennial portrait by Anthony Smith of Darwin as a student, in the courtyard at Christ's College, Cambridge, where he had rooms.
Darwin (right) on the Beagle's deck at Bahía Blanca in Argentina, with fossils; caricature by Augustus Earle, the initial ship's artist