在本栏目我们回顾历史上本周发生的 历史事件—达尔文进化论 ，听听下面的短文，做做下面的练习，学习一些相关的英语表达形式。
本周是11月7日至11月13日历史上发生的事件。 | On November 24th 1859 Charles Darwin published Origin of the Species. In it he set forward his theories of evolution and natural selection, which were to make him famous and were to change the way we think about ourselves forever. Darwin believed all the life on earth developed gradually over millions of years from a few common ancestors.
Charles Robert Darwin was born on February 12th 1809 in Shrewsbury, England. He was the fifth child and second son of Robert Darwin and Susannah Wedgwood. From 1831 to 1836 Darwin served as naturalistaboard the H.M.S. Beagle on a British science expedition around the world. In South America Darwin found fossils of extinct animals that were similar to modern species. On the Galapagos Islands in the Pacific Ocean he noticed many variations among plants and animals of the same general type as those in South America. The expedition visited places around the world, and Darwin studied plants and animals everywhere he went, collecting specimens for further study.
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| Upon his return to London Darwin conducted thoroughresearch of his notes and specimens. Out of this study grew several related theories: one, evolution did occur; two, evolutionary change was gradual, requiring thousands to millions of years; three, the primarymechanism for evolution was a process called natural selection; and four, the millions of species alive today arose from a single original life form.
Darwin continued to write on botany, geology, and zoology until his death in 1882. He is buried in Westminster Abbey.
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