People · researcher

Charles Darwin

1809–1882 · Evolutionary Biology

Lifespan
1809–1882
Field
Evolutionary Biology
Nationality
British

Known For

Natural selection: worked out in the 1830s, sat on for twenty years, and published in 1859 only because Wallace had arrived at the same idea.

Open on the People shelf — the interactive card, the filters, and everything alongside it.

From the Researchers database in Notion, last edited 2026-08-25. This page is the row, rendered by the build; nothing on it is written by hand.