Charles Darwin: A Theory in Crisis

Charles Darwin (1809-1882) was born in Shrewsbury, England. He was a man of extraordinary patience and humility. Darwin's Theory of Evolution is the widely held notion that all life is related and has descended from a common ancestor: the birds and the bananas, the fishes and the flowers -- all related. During his tenure as a student at Cambridge, Darwin's professor John Stevens Henslow (1796-1861) recommended Darwin to Captain Robert FitzRoy (1805-1865) of the HMS Beagle, who was in need of a naturalist.
British naturalist Charles Darwin (1809-1882) began drafting Origin of Species in 184…