摘要
英国自然学家查尔斯·罗伯特·达尔文FRS（1809年2月12日-1882年4月19日）发现并公布了令人信服的证据，证明所有的生命物种都是由共同的祖先长期进化而来的，这个过程被他称为“自然选择”。进化论在达尔文生前就被科学界大多数领域以及许多普通大众所接受，
Charles Robert Darwin FRS （February 12, 1809 -April 19, 1882） was an English naturalist who realised and presented compelling evidence that all species of life have evolved over time from common ancestors, through the process he called natural selection. The theory that evolution occurs became accepted by most of the scientific community and much of the general public in his lifetime, while his theory of natural selection came to be widely seen as the primary explanation of the process of evolution in the 1930s, and now forms the basis of modern evolutionary theory. In modified form,
