This year marks the 200 anniversary the birth of Charles Darwin authored one of the most important books of knowledge human: "The Origin of Species." In this book, published in 1859, Darwin, after many years of analysis put forward the theory of natural selection that governs the evolution. Publications and exhibitions in major science museums in the world will commemorate this event. all began in 1831 aboard the Beagle , a research vessel of the Royal Navy in which Darwin , with 22 years as a naturalist began a journey for five years along the coasts and islands South American continent. Particularly fortunate was the scale of the Beagle in the Galapagos Islands. A Darwin called attention among other things, the enormous variety of finches that populated the islands and found that descendants of a major type of finch . All these species have been differentiated during the long isolation as a result of variation in obtaining food and the appearance of better adapted individuals in the population. For the first time this book reconciled life in the past, reflected in the fossils paleontologists studying distinguished William Smith and present, explaining the evolutionary theory and diversity of life in a rational manner. Photo of start is in fact the first evolutionary scheme drawn by Darwin in 1837. Advances in genetics during the twentieth century and the demonstration of the universality of the genetic code that operates like an elephant in a bacterium, ended up supporting the idea of \u200b\u200bDarwin, as summarized in the hypothesis that life is associated with a common ancestor, a primitive cell that might arise on earth for billions of years and initiating a development to which we are still subjects. Darwin's theory has passed since its publication by different events, both from their fellow scientists, as some sectors of the Anglican Church who made a literal reading of the Bible. Darwin, despite the religious controversy aroused was buried in Westminster Abbey . Probably, as some historians, it was with his funeral to transfer to society the idea that science not only posed no danger to the moral values \u200b\u200bthat defend the religion, but it was also an increasingly important reality in the modern world. In this two hundredth anniversary we can also visit the grave of Darwin or Natural History Museum of London , consider what has led to his theory. Humans are the only ones who can appreciate the diversity of life and the fragility of ecosystems and are the only ones who have responsibility to preserve it.
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