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Charles Darwin
On February 12, 1809, he was born in Shrewsbury, England, Charles Robert Darwin, took the 5th place of 6 brothers, children of
the doctor Robert Darwin and Susannah Wedgwood. A family well-off and not only for the profession of the father, but for their
success with business. A family with a marked religious character, always struggling between maternal Anglicanism and
paternal Unitarianism.
It should be noted that Charles Darwin entered the university very young, with only 16 years old, but initially enrolled in
Medicine. However, it seems that his first experiences in the operating room were not exactly enriching (he was not able to
stand and had to leave both times).
In addition, as his "animosity" for medicine grew, he seemed to increase his fondness for animals, plants, and natural and
biological issues.
He began to relate to important scientific figures such as the professor in botany, Henslow, naturalists who looked at his work
with scientific eyes, like a natural theology. Darwin passed his exams, graduating with an outstanding grade.
While he remained in the center and until the course finished for the rest of the students, Darwin had time devoted to reading, a
reading that unknowingly exerted a great influence on his way of thinking. These works would be:
Paley Natural Theology: A classic treatise where the biological adaptation of spices is demonstrated as irrefutable proof of a
divine design.
The preliminary discourse of the Study of the Natural Philosophy of John Herschel: It was a description of the ultimate goal of
philosophy, the understanding of natural laws through inductive reasoning based on pure observation
Travel to the equinoctial regions of the New Continent of Humboldt.