What is Charles Darwin?
{{Infobox scientist | name = Charles Darwin | honorific_suffix = {{post-nominals|country=GBR|FRS|FRGS|FLS|FZS|JP|size=100%}} | birth_name = Charles Robert Darwin | image = Charles Darwin seated crop.jpg | alt = Three quarter length studio photo showing Darwin's characteristic large forehead and bushy eyebrows with deep set eyes, pug nose and mouth set in a determined look. He is bald on top, with dark hair and long side whiskers but no beard or moustache. His jacket is dark, with very wide lapels, and his trousers are a light check pattern. His shirt has an upright wing collar, and his cravat is tucked into his waistcoat which is a light fine checked pattern. | caption = Darwin, {{circa}} 1854, when he was preparing ''[[On the Origin of Species]]''{{sfn|Freeman|2007|p=76}} | birth_date = {{birth date|1809|2|12|df=y}} | birth_place = [[Shrewsbury]], England | death_date = {{death date and age|1882|4|19|1809|2|12|df=yes}} | death_place = [[Downe|Down]]<!--At the time of his death, the town was called Down; this was not changed until the 1940s-->, Kent, England | resting_place = [[Westminster Abbey]] | fields = [[Natural history]], geology | workplaces = [[Geological Society of London]] | alma_mater = [[University of Edinburgh Medical School|University of Edinburgh]]<br /> [[Christ's College, Cambridge]] ([[Bachelor of Arts|BA]], 1831; [[Master of Arts|MA]], 1836)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/5032354/Charles-Darwins-personal-finances-revealed-in-new-find.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171019230458/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/5032354/Charles-Darwins-personal-finances-revealed-in-new-find.html|url-status=dead|title=Charles Darwin's personal finances revealed in new find|date=22 March 2009|archive-date=19 October 2017|via=www.telegraph.co.uk}}</ref> | doctoral_advisor = <!--there were no PhDs in Cambridge at the time--> | academic_advisors = {{plainlis