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                                                    GREGOR MENDEL

          CHARLES DARWIN       Charles Darwin was born on 12 February 1809 at the Mount House, Shrewsbury. His father was a doctor. His mother died when he was 8 years old. Charles had one brother and four sisters. Up to the age of 8 Charles was taught by an older sister. He then began school. From his earliest years Charles Darwin was interested in natural history. However he was a poor scholar. He went to Edinburgh University to study medicine but he left after 2 years. His father decided he should be a clergyman so Charles Darwin then went to Cambridge University.       Charles Darwin left Cambridge University in 1831. The same year he signed up to sail, without pay, as a naturalist on a ship called the Beagle. Its captain was Robert Fitzroy and it sailed on 27 December 1831.       In February 1832 the Beagle reached Brazil. They stayed in Brazil until Ju...

EUGENE DUBOIS EUGENE DUBOIS Eugene Dubois was the first person to ever deliberately search for fossils of human ancestors. Only a handful of fossil humans had already been discovered, and those were by chance. In a remarkable story of dedication and luck, Dubois succeeded in his unlikely quest.       Eugene Dubois was born in the town of Eijsden in the Netherlands in 1858. As a boy he was fascinated by natural history, a pursuit encouraged by his pharmacist father. An excellent student, he studied medicine and graduated as a doctor in 1884. Two years later he was appointed an anatomy lecturer at Amsterdam University, and married in the same year. The following year, he gave it up to go to the Dutch East Indies, now Indonesia, to look for fossils of human ancestors. No one is quite sure why Dubois threw up a good job to travel half way around the world on what most people would surely have considered a wild goose chase. Obviously, he must have been int...

CARL LINNAEUS CARL LINNAEUS       Born 23 May 1707(1707-05-23)[note 1] Råshult, Stenbrohult parish (now within Älmhult Municipality), Sweden Died 10 January 1778(1778-01-10) (aged 70) Hammarby (estate), Danmark parish (outside Uppsala), Sweden Residence Sweden Nationality Swedish Fields Botany Biology Zoology Alma mater Lund University Uppsala University University of Harderwijk       Known for Taxonomy Ecology Botany Author abbreviation (botany) Carl Linnaeus, also known as Carl von Linné or Carolus Linnaeus, is often called the Father of Taxonomy. His system for naming, ranking, and classifying organisms is still in wide use today (with many changes). His ideas on classification have influenced generations of biologists during and after his own lifetime, even those opposed to the philosophical and theological roots of his work.       Biography of Linnaeus He was born on May 23, 1707, at S...