Charles Darwin was born into a family of thinkers. His father was a Fellow of the Royal Society (the elite circle of top British scientists), his mother was the daughter of Josiah Wedgwood, the man who founded the famous Wedgwood Potteries, and his grandfather, Erasmus Darwin, was a famous...
Charles Robert Darwin was born in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England on 12 February 1809 at his family home, the Mount.[10] He was the fifth of six children of wealthy society doctor and financier Robert Darwin, and Susannah Darwin (née Wedgwood). He was the grandson of Erasmus Darwin on his...
Charles Darwin, who knew almost nothing about lions, was one of the first to suggest an answer, writing, "The mane of the lion forms a good defence against the one danger to which he is liable, namely the attacks of rival lions." This unsupported hypothesis prevailed until 1972, when ...