A biologist born in 1809 in England.

He is known as a scholar who established "The theory of evolution"
He wrote about his five-year experience on a marine survey ship "The Beagle" in the book ,"The voyage of the Beagle" (1839). In this book, he mainly wrote about plants, geological features and people's way of life. Little was mentioned about evolution of living things.
A voluminous work on evolution, called, "The Origin of Species," was published in 1859.

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