It was the early summer of 1831 when English naturalist Charles Darwin embarked on the HMS Beagle for four years to study the Galapagos Islands and Tahiti . We know that during this trip, Darwin began trying to understand how species appeared where they lived and how they evolved to their current condition. However, the initial point of this trip was, by his own admission, to see an active volcano. So how was it that this exciting exploration led a 22 year old young man to spend the next thirty years of his life trying to convince the world that there was more to their existence than their idea of ​​"Creation". » ? Charles Darwin was born on February 12, 1809. He was the son of a trusted doctor in Shrewsbury, England. When Darwin was 13, he and his brother Erasmus set up a chemistry laboratory in the garden of his childhood home. It was during this time that Charles developed a penchant for scientific experimentation. Soon after, Erasmus left home and went to study medicine at Cambridge University. It was a well-known fact among Darwin's sons that they had received medical training, just like their grandfather and father. This didn't seem to work out very well for young Charles Darwin, who went to medical school in 1825. Not only did the sight of blood scare him, but he also discovered that studying medicine wasn't as exciting for him. him that these were his ancestors before.Olszowy 2In what could arguably be considered the spark that excited Charles, he met a young freed slave from Guyana, South America, John Edmonstone, who taught him the the art of taxidermy. The two of them would talk for hours about animal conservation and John would tell stories about the beautiful tropical rainforests where... middle of paper ... the way the world looked at natural history. Up until this point in our history, the majority of people had the impression that the world was created by a divine spark. That God himself touched the Earth and created all things, from birds and trees to oceans and mountains. What Charles Darwin began to understand was that there was much more to it than that. He believed very early that land forms came from the oceans and that all living things that inhabited them very slowly adapted to these changes and evolved. Another discovery that intrigued Darwin was the discovery of fossilized monkeys in Africa. To Charles, this basically proved that humanity was somehow descended from an ape ancestor. However, he kept this thought to himself for the moment as such accusations would have been considered heresy at the time..