Shrewsbury

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Spectrum | 17.02.2009 | 04:30

The Darwin Trail

Großansicht des Bildes mit der Bildunterschrift: "The Mount" -- Charles Darwin's birthplace.

2009 sees the 200th birthday of the “father of evolution”, Charles Darwin, and the 150th anniversary of the appearance of his revolutionary work “On the Origin of Species by Natural Selection”.

The first place that comes to mind in connection with Darwin may well be the Galapagos Islands, where he made the observations that led to the development of his theory. But long before he left the English port of Plymouth on the “Beagle”, the seeds of his theories had already been implanted in young Darwin – in his home town, Shrewsbury, where Charles Darwin was born on the 12 th of February, 1809. Irene Quaile has been on the Darwin trail.

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