Charles Darwin is primarily known as the architect of the theory of evolution by natural selection. Charles Robert Darwin was born in Shropshire, England, on February 12, 1809. Darwin left England a barely credentialed, if promising, twenty-two-year-old student of zoology, botany, and geology. On this trip that Darwin made his famed visit to the islands of the Galapagos. It is certain that the classic presentation of the Galapagos trip as a sort of “eureka moment” for Darwin, in which he both originated and became convinced of the theory of natural selection in a single stroke by analyzing the beaks of the various species of finch found across several of the islands, is incorrect. Darwin died in April 1882, and is buried in Westminster Abbey, next to John Herschel and just across from Isaac Newton.