Darwin was born today 217 years ago.

[Mitch86]

Charles Darwin (born February 12, 1809, Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England—died April 19, 1882, Downe, Kent) was an English naturalist whose scientific theory of evolution by natural selection became the foundation of modern evolutionary studies. An affable country gentleman, Darwin at first shocked religious Victorian society by suggesting that animals and humans shared a common ancestry. However, his nonreligious biology appealed to the rising class of professional scientists, and by the time of his death evolutionary imagery had spread through all of science, literature, and politics. Darwin, himself an agnostic, was accorded the ultimate British accolade of burial in Westminster Abbey, London.

 

[hearlady]

Did you know him, Mitch?

Oh, come on, just a joke! Mitch knows he's younger at heart than most of us.

Thanks for the interesting read.

 

[Aunt Bea]

 

[Michael Z]

Although Darwin was not an active proponent of Eugenics, his first cousin, Francis Galton, made use of Darwin’s theory in the advancement of Eugenics.
Francis Galton - Wikipedia