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Great man but He didnt "discover" evolution. That would be Alfred Wallace(well, he was the first to publish). Wallace published his work in 1855(4 yrs before Darwin).
I'm not implying Darwin stole the idea but Wallace had already wrote about it thru his work in Brazil. It appears that Darwin came to the idea without knowing about Wallace. After he did find out about Wallace, he consulted him for his book.
It was decided by the Royal Academy of (I forgot the correct name) that Darwin had the best chance of being taken seriously(partly because Wallace promoted other "crazy "ideas like spirtuality).In the end the Royal Academy of(?) gave Darwin credit for being the first to publish about evolution and Wallace is mostly forgotten. This was a big hub-bub at the time.
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