Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin (1809-1892) (PROSE: The Universal Databank [+]Loading...["The Universal Databank (reference book)"]) was a famous naturalist (PROSE: Charles Darwin and the Silurian Survival [+]Loading...["Charles Darwin and the Silurian Survival (novel)"]) and biologist, and a friend of the Sixth Doctor. They met whilst Darwin was on the HMS Beagle on 19 September 1835. (AUDIO: Bloodtide) The Eighth Doctor later recalled this encounter and remarked that he almost "[put] him off reptiles for life". (AUDIO: The Creed of the Kromon)
Darwin was known for describing natural selection. However, history forgot that Alfred Russel Wallace had theorised the mechanism years before. Darwin wrote the books Voyage of the Beagle (HOMEVID: Unnatural Selection) and Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection. (PROSE: The Age of Ambition)
The Third Doctor also claimed to have met Darwin. (PROSE: Island of Death)
He was one of many scientists kidnapped by the Rani to create the time brain. (PROSE: Time and the Rani)
The Seventh Doctor laughed at the idea that Darwin's theory of evolution was unproven. (PROSE: Human Nature)
Biography[[edit] | [edit source]]
Early life[[edit] | [edit source]]
Charles Darwin was born in 1809, (PROSE: The Universal Databank [+]Loading...["The Universal Databank (reference book)"]) in Shrewsbury, England. (PROSE: Charles Darwin and the Silurian Survival [+]Loading...["Charles Darwin and the Silurian Survival (novel)"])
Expedition at the Galápagos Islands[[edit] | [edit source]]
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By 1833, Charles Darwin was aboard the HMS Beagle. (AUDIO: Gallery of Ghouls [+]Loading...["Gallery of Ghouls (audio story)"])
The Sixth Doctor took Evelyn Smythe to the Galápagos Islands on 19 September 1835 to meet Darwin, one of Evelyn's heroes, shortly after the Beagle had arrived. They found a group of revived Silurians who planned to destroy humanity. Their leader, Tulok, sent a Myrka to destroy the Beagle, but Greta Rodrigues sacrificed herself to stop it. After the Silurians' plan had been prevented, Darwin returned to the Beagle to complete his historic voyage. (AUDIO: Bloodtide [+]Loading...["Bloodtide (audio story)"])
Darwin's trip aboard the Beagle inspired his book On the Origin of Species. (PROSE: Time Traveller's Diary [+]Loading...["Time Traveller's Diary (novel)"])
End of life[[edit] | [edit source]]
Darwin died in 1892. (PROSE: The Universal Databank [+]Loading...["The Universal Databank (reference book)"])
Behind the scenes[[edit] | [edit source]]
- David Tennant voiced a fictionalised version of Darwin in the Aardman Animations film, The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists!
