The Aim behind Darwin Day celebration
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A pivotal moment in history occurred when we began to take a hard look at ourselves, and at life, in a new way. It changed not just how we perceived ourselves, but it also affected how we understood our relationship to all the other life and species on Earth. We came to realize, along the way, that we had been connected, however distantly, to every form of life on Earth, and that moment was both aggrandizing and humbling, all at once.
That moment was when Charles Darwin brought the idea of Law of Natural Selection into the limelight of the scientific world, and we began to see with clear eyes how everything, absolutely everything, was connected.
Darwin’s theories have been absolutely fundamental to the understanding of life and the species of the world as we know it today. Charles Robert Darwin was born in 1809, in Shrewsbury, England, and received his education at University of Edinburgh in Scotland. He grew to become a naturalist and geologist who would eventually impact the thinking of people all over the world.
Darwin was fascinated by the number and variety of fossils from around the planet, as well as the species in their great diversity. So he set out on a five-year voyage on the Beagle to sail around the world and study life in all of its unique and varied forms, making particularly important discoveries in the Galapagos islands.
Darwin’s theories presented the ideas that some species originated from other species, and that even man itself had a shared ancestor with the primates. While his theories were originally rejected by the scientists of his day, they were slowly accepted as more and more data was collected and more species were discovered. DNA research seemed to push his theories even further, as scientists started to see the connections between species in the very genes that composed them.
People have been celebrating Darwin’s birthday (on February 12) for many years, but it came about as an actual day back in the 1990s. It was meant by the founders to not only celebrate Mr. Darwin, but also various other scientific achievements made by humanity.
Charles Darwin was a biologist and naturalist who is known for his theory of evolution. On 12 February, Darwin Day is celebrated to commemorate the birth anniversary of Charles Darwin and his significant contributions in the field of science and humanity. Charles Darwin was born in Shrewbury, England on 12 February, 1809. He was the second youngest of six children. His father was Robert Darwin a doctor and Susannah Wedgwood Darwin.
At the age of 22 in 1831, he left for five year survey voyage on the HMS Beagle. He had studied several types of animals and plants and started generating a theory of evolution and his views on natural selection. After 28 years he had published his book named “On the Origin of Species". On 19th April, 1882 he died in London.
Darwin Day celebration began with three Darwin enthusiasts: Dr. Robert Stephens, who motivated the community of Humanist in Silicon Valley to initiate an annual Darwin Day celebration in 1995; Prof. Massimo Pigliucci, who organised an annual Darwin Day event at the University of Tennessee in 1997 and Amanda Chesworth, who joined Stephens to officially incorporate the Darwin Day Program in 2000 in New Mexico.
Two years later, the Darwin Day celebration was reincorporated in California as the Darwin Day Celebration to encourage science and humanity throughout the globe.
On the 100th anniversary of Charles Darwin in 1909 large celebrations were held in Cambridge, New York and New Zealand for his contributions to science and humanity.
In 1959, the University of Chicago commemorated the 100th anniversary of the publication of the Origin of Species with a series of events from 24 November to the basantpanchami2022.
Aim behind Darwin Day celebration
The Darwin day is celebrated to inspire people all over the world to reflect the importance of the scientific thinking, works, curiosity to find new things, hunger for truth etc. of Charles Darwin.
People can visit a natural history museum, can attend exhibitions, exhibits on evolution, they can read The Origin of Species his book and one of his famous invention or theory. Even on social media several posts are shared by the people to celebrated and honour Charles Darwin.
Charles Darwin inventions
1. Darwin’s Theory of Evolution:
According to this theory, the species survived through a process called natural selection, where those are successfully adapted or evolved to meet the changing requirements of their natural habitat but those who failed to evolve and reproduce they died. He studies birds, plants and fossils. Darwin noticed similarity among all the species all over the world and also told that species gradually evolved from common ancestors. Later Darwin's theory of evolution and the process of natural selection came to be known as "Darwinism".
2.Theory: Origin of Species:
After several years of investigation and research in 1858, he publicly introduced his revolutionary theory of evolution in a letter read at a meeting of the Linnean Society. On 24 November, 1859, he published his theory On the Species by Means of Natural Selection.
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