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    Charles Darwin 1809-1882

    Nov 26, 2020 2 minutes
    Andrew Marr, broadcaster and author, chooses

    IN PROFILE

    harles Darwin was a British naturalist and geologist. His five-year round-the-world voyage on HMS and subsequent publication of his diary-journal. established him as a leading geologist and author. But he is best-known for his groundbreaking book, (1859), in which he advanced his scientific theory that different species evolved over the

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