GRAPHIC SCIENCE BIOGRAPHIES CHARLES DARWIN AND THE THEORY OF EVOLUTION JORDI BAYARRI GRAPHIC UNIVERSE MINNEAPOLIS
CHARLES DARWIN WAS BORN ON FEBRUARY 12 1809 AT THE MOUNT HIS FAMILY’S HOME IN SHREWSBURY ENGLAND HE WAS THE FIFTH OF SIX CHILDREN HIS MOTHER’S FAMILY HAD A SUCCESSFUL POTTERY FACTORY WHEN CHARLES’S MOTHER DIED HIS SISTERS HELPED TAKE CARE OF HIM HIS FATHER ROBERT DARWIN WAS A DOCTOR AND A FINANCIER HE WAS ALSO A STRICT PARENT 5
CHARLES’S GRANDFATHER ERASMUS DARWIN WAS A DOCTOR TOO HE WAS ALSO A SCIENTIST AND HE USED TO WRITE POEMS ABOUT THE NATURAL WORLD CHARLES WAS INTERESTED IN SCIENCE FROM A YOUNG AGE HE WOULD DESIGN EXPERIMENTS WITH HIS BROTHER ERASMUS ALVEY DARWIN BUT WHAT CHARLES LIKED BEST WAS WATCHING THE NATURE AROUND HIM HE NEVER TIRED OF WANDERING AROUND THE COUNTRYSIDE HE WOULD PAY CLOSE ATTENTION TO THE INSECTS AND OTHER ANIMALS HE FOUND THERE 6
