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Darwin's
Origin of Species is 150 years old
On november 24 2009, it is 150 years that Charles
Darwin published his book that changed the scientific world.
On RouteYou, we looked into the locations
and tours
related to this monument in science, so you can go and experience his
story.
Check
out 12 places linked to this great mind:
- Shrewbury
(his birthplace)
- Westminster
Abbey (where he is burried)
- Church
of Downe (where he was supposed to get burried)
- Christ's
College, Cambridge (where he read about divine design and Alexander
von Humboldt)
- Royal
Society at Carlton House Terrace (where he was
elected Fellow of the Royal Society)
- Isle
of White (where he spent his holidays with his family and
where the famous picture on the left was taken)
- Jardin
des Plantes, Paris (where there is a statue of Lamarck, the
'alternative' theory)
- Gower
Street, London (where he lived for a while)
- Down
House (the house where he lived)
- Maer
(the place where he poposed to his cousing Emma Wedgewood to marry him)
- Darwin
Sound in the Beagle Channel
- Isabela
Island on Galapagos
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