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Article: The man who rocked biology to its core.(Charles Darwin )
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- Science News for Kids
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- February 11, 2009
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When the baby Charles Darwin arrived in the world, on February 12, 1809, modern science was also an infant. Chemists had begun talking about things called atoms. But nobody knew what atoms really were. Physicists didn't know much about energy. Nobody had a clue that light was a combination of electricity and magnetism.
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And biology--it was a confused mixture of folklore and superstition, waiting for someone to explain how life worked. That person was Darwin.
By the time Darwin died in 1882, chemists had a neat chart for cataloging the different types of atoms. James Clerk Maxwell had figured out the formulas for explaining ...