How Evolution Has Affected Our Lives Today - 1975 Words

How Evolution has Affected our Lives today Josh Calloway 11th Mr. Shurtleff A3 Concurrent History Josh Calloway Mr. Shurtleff A3 Concurrent History 27 February 2015 The Theory of Evolution and its Importance Charles Darwin made the theory of evolution by natural selection and when he did the world was thrown into chaos. He had came up with an idea so powerful and so life altering that it has changed our world forever. Some said it was blasphemy and it should be shunned and ignored. This struck home for darwin as he was a very religious man. Some said it was the absolute truth and proved that god didn’t exist. While others believed in the theory of evolution and in god at the same time. How does a single man develop such a†¦show more content†¦Carl Linnaeus was a Swedish Naturalist, He set up the system of assigning animals species names in latin (pg. 2). He also assigned them genus’s, families, and kingdoms. This gave other scientist a common language to use when talking about animals and in turn helped Charles Darwin with his examples and gave a general idea that all animals are connected in a way. Carl also inspired many future scientist’s to travel the g lobe including Charles Darwin. But Charles didn’t just form this earth shaking theory of evolution by looking at others work he actually explored places and observed the many animals there. On December 27, 1831 Charles Darwin began his scientific voyage that would ultimately change the world upon a ship called the â€Å"beagle†, the beagle s voyage lasted almost five years. Darwin was on land most of this journey; investigating geology, and making natural history collections, while the beagle was mapping and charting the coast. In 1835 the beagle was charting the coasts of the Galapagos islands, during that time Darwin was on the islands. While Darwin was on the islands he noticed that there was a species of birds called the finch on all the islands. The thing about these birds was that they were all the same species, but on each island they had different sizes and shapes of beaks. Charles was baffled at such a discovery. How could Finches of the same species have suc h vastly