24 November 1859, On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favored Races in the Struggle for Life by Charles Darwin (renamed On the Origin of Species species Origin of Species 13 years later) was published in London, England. In it, Charles Darwin detailed his observations and provided his intuition about what he believed caused evolution. He called it "natural selection." Before that, almost everyone believed that a single God created every living organism and that none of them had changed in the slightest since then. Charles Darwin's The Origin of Species influenced the minds of 1859 and influenced all of science. Charles Darwin was born to Robert Darwin and Susannah Wedgwood on 12 February 1809. Darwin was raised by his three older sisters after their mother's death when he was an infant. eight years. Between the years 1818 and 1825, Darwin studied at the Anglican Shrewsbury School. The time spent in this school was not pleasant; Darwin was ostracized by his peers because of his interests in science and chemistry. After his education at the Anglican school in Shrewsbury, Darwin attended the University of Edinburgh, where he learned much about the sciences. It was in Edinburgh that Darwin met Robert Edmond Grant, an evolutionist who would become his mentor while he was at university. In 1828, his father decided that Edinburgh was not suitable for Charles Darwin and transferred him to Cambridge University. It was here that Darwin flourished and embraced the circumstances that would lead him to the journey that would help him write The Origin of Species. On 27 December 1831 Darwin set sail with HMS Beagle and her captain, Robert Fitzroy. Intending to explore Patagonia, it was during this voyage that Darwin encountered the... paper medium... of the Universe. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge UP, 1998. Print.Leff, David. "AboutDarwin.com - Dedicated to the life and times of Charles Darwin." About Darwin.com. Np, September 2011. Web. 11 January 2014. .Mayr, Ernst. "Darwin's Influence on Modern Thought: Scientific American". American scientist. Np, Nov. 24, 2009. Web. Jan. 11, 2014. “The Origin of Species Published.” History.com. A&E and Web Television Networks. January 10, 2014. .Owen, Richard. "Richard Owen's Review of the Origin of Species". Richard Owen's review of the origin of species. The Victorian Web, 2008. Web. 10 January. 2014. .