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Charles Darwin: Evolutionary Journey and Achievements

Explore Charles Darwin's influential voyage, scientific publications, personal struggles, and groundbreaking contributions to evolutionary theory, culminating in the publication of "Origin of Species" in 1859.

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Charles Darwin: Evolutionary Journey and Achievements

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  1. 1831-36Sails with TheBeagle • 1837-45 Private notebooks on evolution • First bouts of (chronic & lifelong) illness • Publications on geography (coral reefs, volcanic islands, shelves of Glen • Roy) and zoology (Zoology of the Voyage of the HMS Beagle) • winter 1838 Darwin named Secretary of Geological Society • Jan. 1839 Elected fellow of Royal Society of London • Married to Emma Wedgwood • summer 1839 Publishes Journal and Remarks from the Beagle’s voyage • 1846-54Barnacle studies(beginning of “Darwin’s Delay”) • 1851 Daughter Anne (age 10) dies, possibly of tuberculosis • June 1858 Darwin receives Alfred Russel Wallace’s paper on evolution • Baby Charles Waring dies of scarlet fever • July 1858 Wallace’s and Darwin’s papers read at Linnaean Society • Nov. 1859 Origin of Species published

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