When Charles Darwin left England in 1831 aboard the HMS Beagle, he never expected his voyage would change the way humans viewed the world - the 22-year-old was looking for adventure! As the ship's naturalist, he was hired on to collect specimens of animals, plants, and fossils from faraway lands and ship them back to England for study, and to write about what he observed. The two-year voyage turned into five, and by the time he returned home, he was a national celebrity. Darwin and Evolution for Kids traces the transformation of a privileged and somewhat scatter-brained youth into the great thinker who proposed the revolutionary theory he called the Transmutation of Species Through Natural Selection, what most people now call the Theory of Evolution. By encouraging readers to define the differences between theories and beliefs, facts and opinions, Darwin and Evolution for Kids does not shy away from a concept that continues to spark heated public debate more than a century after int was first proposed.