Darwin was born in 1809 in a town called Shrewsbury. Dr. Robert, his father was a local physician. Besides being a physician he was an extremely strict father to his son Charles.
His elementary school teachers described him as a child who fooled around a lot and he never did anything that was at all useful. However the only useful things to those teachers were the studying of Greek and Latin verbs.
In April of 1831, Darwin graduated at Cambridge from theology. Then he went to North Wales so that he could study rock formations and look for fossils.
Darwin had his novel, The Origin of Species published in 1859 and that book caused the most heated debate in England that had happened in a long time. In the book Darwin expressed some of his theories, which included natural selection, the theory that everything living thing has the same one ancestor or came from the same thing, and finally the theory of survival of the fittest.
In 1871, Darwin published another novel and this novel is called The Descent of Man. In that novel, Darwin drew attention to the difference between humans and animals