Charles Darwin Fact File

Charles Darwin was a naturalist on the HMS Beagle.He

made an important contribution to science about the

theory of evolution. He discovered the Theory Of

Evolution on the Galapagos Islands.

on several different islands he found 13 types of finch. His idea was that the finches had adapted to their

surroundings in order to survive. He then studied apes and monkey

and found that they had human like features. He then came up with the idea that we had evolved from monkeys.