Life and the biography of Darwin. Inception evolutionary theory. Darwin"s children. On service of its Majesty. The voyage of the Beagle. Statue of Charles Darwin at the Natural History Museum in London. Two pound coin commemorating Darwin"s birth.
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Robert Darwin, himself quietly a freethinker , had baby Charles baptised in the Anglican Church, but Charles and his siblings attended the Unitarian chapel with their mother. The eight year old Charles already had a taste for natural history and collecting when he joined the day school run by its preacher in 1817. He learned taxidermy from John Edmonstone , a freed black slave who had accompanied Charles Waterton in the South American rainforest , and often sat with this "very pleasant and intelligent man". Beginning on the 27th of December, 1831, the voyage lasted almost five years and, as Fitzroy had intended, Darwin spent most of that time on land investigating geology and making natural history collections, while the Beagle surveyed and charted coasts. Three Fuegians on board, who had been seized during the first Beagle voyage and had spent a year in England, were taken back to Tierra del Fuego as missionaries.