Did Charles Darwin have social influences?

Darwin's thought changed the world. His influence can not be overstated. His Magnus Opus, The Origin of The Species, set the foundations of all modern medicine and biology. Nature seized to be...

through his works in evolution he influenced the modernism mindset of realism

He did not influence Darwin and Darwin did not know who he was. Darwin's ' blending theory of inheritance ' was wrong and though Darwin did not particularly like the theory he could think of nothing...

Wallace's theory of natural selection was sent to Charles Darwin. Darwin in England recognized his own theory in the manuscript

The principle influence was Darwin reading Principles of Geology by Charles Lyell - he was given a copy by Robert Fitzroy (the captain of the Beagle) at the start of the Beagle's voyage around the...