Charles Darwin The Father of Ecology!

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Today I shall introduce Charles Darwin Who is the Father of Ecology.

Charles Darwin was born in Shrewsbury, Shropshire. He was the son

of Robrt Waring Darwin and his wife Susannah and the grandson of

the scientist Erasmus Darwin. His mother died when he was eight

years old, and he was brought up by his sister. He was taught the

classics at Shrewsbury, then sent to Edinburgh to study medicine,

which he hated. Like many modern students, Darwin only excelled

in subjects that intrigued him Although his father was a physician.

Darwin was uninterested in medicine and he was unable to stand

the sight of surgery. He did eventually obtain a degree in theology

from Cambridge University although theology was of minor

interest to him also.

What Darwin really liked to do was tramp over the hills, observing

plants and animals, collecting new specimens, scrutinizing their

structures, and categorizing his findings, guided by his cousin

William Darwin Foxx, an entomologist. Darwin's scientific

inclinations were encouraged by his botany professor, John

Stevens Henslow, who was instrumental, despite heavy paternal

the opposition, in securing a place for Darwin as a naturalist on the

surveying expedition of HMS Beagle to Patagonia.

Under Captain Robert Fitzroy, Darwin visited Tenerife, the Cape

Verde Island, Brazil, Montevideo, Buenos Aires, Chile, the Galapagos

Islands, Tahiti, New Zealand, and Tasmania. In the Cape Verde Island

Darwin devised his theory of coral reefs.

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