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Wikipedia: Charles Robert Darwin FRS (12 February 1809 – 19 April 1882) was an English naturalist who showed that all species of life have descended over time from common ancestors, and proposed the scientific theory that this branching pattern of evolution resulted from a process that he called natural selection. He published his theory with compelling evidence for evolution in his 1859 book On the Origin of Species. The fact that evolution occurs became accepted by the scientific community and much of the general public in his lifetime, but it was not until the emergence of the modern evolutionary synthesis from the 1930s to the 1950s that a broad consensus developed that natural selection was the basic mechanism of evolution.
![[Caricature from 1871 Vanity Fair]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/VanityFair_Darwin2_s.jpg "Caricature from 1871 Vanity Fair")
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![[Annie Darwin]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Annie_Darwin_s.jpg "Annie Darwin")
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![[Punch's almanac for 1882, published shortly before Darwin's death, depicts him amidst evolution from chaos to...]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Man_is_But_a_Worm_s.jpg "Punch's almanac for 1882, published shortly before Darwin's death, depicts him amidst evolution from chaos to...")
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![[By 1879, an increasingly famous Darwin had suffered years of illness.]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Darwin_restored2_s.jpg "By 1879, an increasingly famous Darwin had suffered years of illness.")
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![[An 1871 caricature following publication of The Descent of Man was typical of many showing Darwin with an ape...]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Darwin_ape_s.jpg "An 1871 caricature following publication of The Descent of Man was typical of many showing Darwin with an ape...")
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![[Darwin chose to marry his cousin, Emma Wedgwood.]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Emma_Darwin_s.jpg "Darwin chose to marry his cousin, Emma Wedgwood.")
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