Vocabulary

naturalist – натуралист, естествоиспытатель

establish - установить

ancestry - предок

evolution - эволюция

natural selection – естественный отбор

transmutation – превращение, преобразование

distribution - распространение

wildlife – дикая природа

fossil - ископаемое

dominant - преобладающий

recognition - признание

Exercise 1. Find the international words in the text.

Exercise 2. Find the sentences with irregular verbs. Translate them.

Exercise 3. Prove that:

Darwin was a real scientist.

Exercise 4. Speak about Darwin’s biography using the dates:

12 February 1809, 1838, 1858, 1859, 1871, 19 April 1882.

Exercise 5. Agree or disagree.

1. Charles Darwin was an English sailor.

2. He established that all species of life have descended over time from different ancestries, and proposed the scientific theory that this branching pattern of evolution resulted from a process that he called natural selection.

3. He published his theory with compelling evidence for evolution in his 1865 book On the Origin of Species, overcoming scientific rejection of earlier concepts of transmutation of species.

4. Darwin began detailed investigations and in 1838 conceived his theory of natural development.

5. His research on plants was published in a series of books, and in his final book, he examined earthworms and their effect on people.