Charles Darwin was an English naturalist, geologist and biologist whose work reshaped how scientists explain the diversity of life. He proposed that all species descend from a common ancestor and, together with Alfred Russel Wallace, that natural selection drives this branching. His book On the Origin of Species (1859) set out that theory with supporting evidence, and his other titles include The Voyage of the Beagle, The Descent of Man and The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals. Darwin died in 1882 and was buried in Westminster Abbey.
