Born 12 February 1809
Mount House, Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England
Died 19 April 1882 (aged 73)
Down House, Downe, Kent, England
Residence England
Citizenship British
Nationality British
Fields Naturalist
Institutions Geological Society of London
Alma mater University of Edinburgh
University of Cambridge
Academic advisors John Stevens Henslow
Adam Sedgwick
Known for The Voyage of the Beagle
On The Origin of Species
Natural selection
InfluencesAlexander von Humboldt
John Herschel
Charles Lyell
InfluencedJoseph Dalton Hooker
Thomas Henry Huxley
George John Romanes
Ernst Haeckel
Notable awardsRoyal Medal (1853)
Wollaston Medal (1859)
Copley Medal (1864)
Charles Robert Darwin FRS was an English naturalist. He established that all species of life have descended over time from common ancestry, and proposed the scientific theory that this branching pattern of evolution resulted from a process that he called natural selection.