People from Shrewsbury - Edward Waring, Charles Darwin, Joe Hart, List of Old Salopians, Sandy Lyle, Eric Lock, Steven Fletcher, Billy Jones (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 55. Chapters: Edward Waring, Charles Darwin, Joe Hart, List of Old Salopians, Sandy Lyle, Eric Lock, Steven Fletcher, Billy Jones, David Edwards, Thomas Churchyard, Richard of Shrewsbury, 1st Duke of York, Charles Burney, Danny Guthrie, Rob Taylor, Henry Wace, Andy Mulliner, Christopher Henn-Collins, Andy Cooke, John Hamilton Reynolds, Old Tom Parr, Peter Harding, Dalian Atkinson, John Hawley Edwards, Lizzy Clark, William How, Kevin Whitrick, Glyn Thompson, Kerrie Manley, Tom Bradshaw, Geoffrey Hornblower Cock, Stephen Price, Thomas Farnolls Pritchard, Matthew Green, Daniel Redfern, Owen Seaman, Gavin Cadwallader, Richard Tarlton, Eleanor James, John Wylie, Billy George, Thomas Jones, Billy Newham, Andy May, Arthur Purves Phayre, Malcolm Pryce, Dean Craven, Neil Edmond, John Gwynn, Kevin Seabury, Mike Bernard, Colin Davies, James Ashford, Nick Conway, Henry Greisley, Keith Jones, Matthew Jones, Tony Gillam, Chris Leaman, Tim Preece, Job Orton, Frederick Oakeley, John Hollings, John Weaver, Robert of Shrewsbury, James Alan Holt, James Bowen, Frederick Eley, John Bowen, Humphrey Edwards, Richard Burton, Mark Robinson, William Davies. Excerpt: Charles Robert Darwin FRS (12 February 1809 - 19 April 1882) was an English naturalist. He established that all species of life have descended over time from common ancestry, and proposed the scientific theory that this branching pattern of evolution resulted from a process that he called natural selection. He published his theory with compelling evidence for evolution in his 1859 book On the Origin of Species, overcoming scientific rejection of earlier concepts of transmutation of species. By the 1870s the scientific community and much of the general public accepted evolution as a fact. However, many favoured competing explanations and it was not until the emergence of the modern evolutionary...