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An only child of a wealthy London family Darwin started his fascination with animals very early. His father was a big game hunter and would often take his son on safari's with him. Although Charles never really got into the sport himself, the animals he saw on the excursions piqued his interest. He never really lived up to his father's expectations of a 'real man', having an interest more in books and watching life than sports or skill. His doting mother didn't mind, though. She always supported anything he was interested in.At the age of seventeen his father had arranged another excursion to Africa. But this time Charles insisted on staying home and continuing his schooling. There were some hurtful words exchanged on both sides before his father left for the boat, taking his mother with him. Their ship went down somewhere off the African coast with all hands lost. Charles was left their mansion and estate, neither of which he truly knew what to do with.
(I figured if Aardman can say he had an adventure with pirates, I can make up a history for him)
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Aw, Dr. Doolittle himself could hardly do better than to befriend a butterfly 
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His mother was probably a little on the dumpy side, which probably explains his attraction to chubbier gals
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Amelia stood on a crate, looking out at sea. "So...you got a family back in London, Chuck?" she asked, tilting her head up to look at him.
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"So, what was it like growin' up for ya?" asked Amelia, leaning on a barrel.
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Meriwether: Aww~ You were such a cute kid *Grins* But then you grew up and turned into this weird and awkward noodle-man.
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Meriwether: Pfffft! Lookit your stupid li'l suspenders *She grins widely* What a dork! Also your face looks really wee-id without those gigantic caterpillars growin' on your face.
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Charles Robert Darwin was born in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England on 12 February 1809 at his family home, The Mount.[18] He was the fifth of six children of wealthy society doctor and financier Robert Darwin, and Susannah Darwin (née Wedgwood). He was the grandson of Erasmus Darwin on his father's side, and of Josiah Wedgwood on his mother's side.
The seven-year-old Charles Darwin in 1816.
Both families were largely Unitarian, though the Wedgwoods were adopting Anglicanism. Robert Darwin, himself quietly a freethinker, had baby Charles baptised in November 1809 in the Anglican St Chad's Church, Shrewsbury, but Charles and his siblings attended the Unitarian chapel with their mother. The eight-year-old Charles already had a taste for natural history and collecting when he joined the day school run by its preacher in 1817. That July, his mother died. From September 1818 he joined his older brother Erasmus attending the nearby Anglican Shrewsbury School as a boarder.[19]
Darwin spent the summer of 1825 as an apprentice doctor, helping his father treat the poor of Shropshire, before going to the University of Edinburgh Medical School with his brother Erasmus in October 1825. He found lectures dull and surgery distressing, so neglected his studies. He learned taxidermy from John Edmonstone, a freed black slave who had accompanied Charles Waterton in the South American rainforest, and often sat with this "very pleasant and intelligent man".[20]
In Darwin's second year he joined the Plinian Society, a student natural history group whose debates strayed into radical materialism. He assisted Robert Edmond Grant's investigations of the anatomy and life cycle of marine invertebrates in the Firth of Forth, and on 27 March 1827 presented at the Plinian his own discovery that black spores found in oyster shells were the eggs of a skate leech. One day, Grant praised Lamarck's evolutionary ideas. Darwin was astonished by Grant's audacity, but had recently read similar ideas in his grandfather Erasmus' journals. [21] Darwin was rather bored by Robert Jameson's natural history course which covered geology including the debate between Neptunism and Plutonism. He learned classification of plants, and assisted with work on the collections of the University Museum, one of the largest museums in Europe at the time.[22]
This neglect of medical studies annoyed his father, who shrewdly sent him to Christ's College, Cambridge, for a Bachelor of Arts degree as the first step towards becoming an Anglican parson. As Darwin was unqualified for the Tripos, he joined the ordinary degree course in January 1828.[23] He preferred riding and shooting to studying. His cousin William Darwin Fox introduced him to the popular craze for beetle collecting; Darwin pursued this zealously, getting some of his finds published in Stevens' Illustrations of British entomology. He became a close friend and follower of botany professor John Stevens Henslow and met other leading naturalists who saw scientific work as religious natural theology, becoming known to these dons as "the man who walks with Henslow". When his own exams drew near, Darwin focused on his studies and was delighted by the language and logic of William Paley's Evidences of Christianity.[24] In his final examination in January 1831 Darwin did well, coming tenth out of 178 candidates for the ordinary degree.[25]
Darwin had to stay at Cambridge until June. He studied Paley's Natural Theology, which made an argument for divine design in nature, explaining adaptation as God acting through laws of nature.[26] He read John Herschel's new book, which described the highest aim of natural philosophy as understanding such laws through inductive reasoning based on observation, and Alexander von Humboldt's Personal Narrative of scientific travels. Inspired with "a burning zeal" to contribute, Darwin planned to visit Tenerife with some classmates after graduation to study natural history in the tropics. In preparation, he joined Adam Sedgwick's geology course, then travelled with him in the summer for a fortnight, in order to map strata in Wales.[27]
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Wow! That's very interesting! I didn't know all that!
Of course, I was very aware that my history was not accurate. But the movie was extremely and intentionally inaccurate as well. Like we all know that Queen Victoria wasn't REALLY martial arts whiz.
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I know! But still, Im a bit of historian and i loved the movie btw!
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Well, it's always nice to know the real history. Thank you so much for taking the time to tell me. That was nice.
I know! Wasn't it great?
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Yeah. Before the movie came out for about a year I was developing a movies inspired by The Great Mouse Detective, Watership Down, and Redwall called "The Life and Adventure of Bobby Wilkerson" I made a Facebook page for it.
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oh GOSH! D': poor little Charles 
and the bow looks positively adorable!
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Yeah. It is a rather depressing past to give the little guy. But he's seems awful young to be living in that gigantic mansion all by himself, and I doubt his scientific career could pay for such a place. There had to be a reason. And he also seems rather insecure, which might lend to a troubled past.
Thanks!!
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you're very right! bless him, the poor man. so, from when he was 17 to when he was in the film... that would of been only 5 years ago! (in the books it said he was 22 so that's how old i say he is)
ah, no luck ever comes to this little lad...
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YOU have a story for him? WHERE?
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safely locked away in my mind to save myself from embarrassment! [link]
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Aww. *pouty face* I was hoping to read it.
I saw that picture. Very good job. Poor little guy looks so downtrodden.
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i'm sorry but: 1: i'm a truly AWFUL writer and 2: it'd more than likely suck anyway.
yeah, but thank you!
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Only way to get better is practice.
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but i DO! it just... always sucks XD
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Aw. Don't think like that. Think 'I have some things I need to work on' and work on them.
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I did! [link]
Glad you like!
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Dawww, he's in brace's as well! 
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Those strap things on his trousers, I think they're braces!
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Oh! Suspenders! I guess they call them braces elsewhere. I was thinking like braces for your teeth and I was really confused.
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Ahh. That's what they're called!
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o-oh my... this is so a-adorable I can't even... wow :'D
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Look Ma! No sideburns!
So glad u like!!!
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Oh my gosh 
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Well, I couldn't leave DARWIN out!! He's actually the first one I drew. I imagine he would be a pretty cute kid. But probably didn't do well in large crowds. He probably got 'kick me' signs taped to him constantly.
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Hehe, of course! 
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