ABSTRACT
Charles Darwin was born in Shrewsbury into a medical family. After attending Shrewsbury school, he studied medicine at Edinburgh University and John Stevens recommended Darwin as a naturalist to go with HMS Beagle on world voyage. Inspired by Lyell's Geology Principles, the observations made on this voyage provided him with material from which his theories developed. Most of this development took place in a period of intense activity. The Origin of Species did not, however, emphasise that humanity participated in the evolutionary rules governing rest of the natural world, and after preparatory works by Huxley and Lyell, that Darwin published The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex, in which evolutionary principles applied to human species. The excerpt concerns the origins of language, a matter of great importance since Wallace ready to accept a clear distinction between the human and other species from natural selection. Darwin's argument is that mental dexterity is a product possession of language.
