There are few great thinkers that have left a truly fundamental and astounding impact on the world, and Charles Darwin is one of them. Darwin was born in 1809 and until around 1830 he planned to become a clergyman of the Church of England. While at the University of Cambridge, as he was preparing to become a clergyman, he met Adam Sedgwick, a geologist, and John Stevens Henslow, a naturalist. Both of these associates sparked Darwin's first …showed first 75 words of 964 total…

…showed last 75 words of 964 total…Domestication, The Descent of Man and The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals. These books contributed to Darwin's theory becoming a widely accepted concept, more so as people learned to overcome their religious beliefs which commonly restricted their thinking in regard to the natural world. Darwin's theory of evolution not only changed the way people thought of the natural world, but his rational approach profoundly influenced future scientific endeavors for generations to come.