Were he still alive, Charles Darwin would be 199 years old today. The man is lauded (and demonized) for his "controversial" ideas about natural selection, but I prefer to think of him as a naturalist first and foremost. He lived in a time where natural history was a field, and generalist knowledge was actually prized. Darwin traveled the world, saw all sorts of awesome things (like the marine iguana above), and, as a result of all that exploration and observation, he proposed the theory of natural selection.
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