Charles Robert Darwin Charles Robert Darwin, who was born in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England, on February 12, 1809, was a great British scientist. Charles Darwin developed his idea of evolution called natural selection. "His work was of major influence on life, earth sciences, and modern thou...

Evolution, a process of change through time, is what links together the enormous diversity of the living world. A lot of evidence is present that indicates that the earth has had a very long history and that all living things arose in the course of that history from earlier, more simpler forms. In...