How did charles darwin discover evolution?
Darwin, who’d originally started out as a seminary student, was an extremely astute observer and had a tendency to ask questions of what he saw or heard. I don’t recall that he studied dead penguins, but rather live pigeons which he bred, more about that below. It is true that many elements of the theory of evolution were already discovered prior to Darwin, though also there were some key ones that he had not heard about which, if he had head about them, things could have been much easier for him — such as Gregor Mendol’s studies of plant variation. However, he did not simply put together other peoples discoveries, but made some key ones of his own as well as took other people’s discoveries and extended them. Here are some of them from the top of my head, and if you read some of the books referenced you can find others. Key elements in Darwin’s development of his theory included the following: 1. Darwin observed great variations among species of animals on the archapeglo of Galapagos
