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Books by Charles Darwin

Charles Darwin (1809–1882) was a British naturalist whose theory of evolution by natural selection transformed biology. He studied at Cambridge, voyaged on HMS Beagle from 1831 to 1836, and spent the following decades refining his theory at Down House in Kent. His other major works include The Descent of Man, which extended evolution to human origins, and The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals. He was buried in Westminster Abbey. The theory he proposed, confirmed and extended by molecular genetics in the twentieth century, remains the unifying framework of all modern biology.