What is recorded here
This blue commemorative plaque records: This residence was home to Britain's most famous naturalist and geologist during six weeks of the summer of 1861 Charles Robert Darwin traveller, adventurer and writer b.1809-d.1882 author of Origin Of Species published 1859 Recorded plaque organisation: Torbay Civic Society.
Charles Darwin was a British naturalist and geologist renowned for his theory of evolution by natural selection, as outlined in his seminal work "On the Origin of Species," published in 1859. His ideas fundamentally changed scientific understanding of the origins and diversity of life on Earth.
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