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Charles Darwin is an Industrial Era Great Scientist in Civilization VI.

Unique ability[]

Gain 500 Science Science (on Standard speed) for each Natural Wonder tile here or adjacent.

Strategy[]

Before you recruit Darwin, you should check what natural wonder you intend to use him on. Depending on your current Science Science output, expending him on a 1-tile wonder like Crater Lake may not be worth it. If you have easy access to a 4-tile wonder, however, Darwin should be a high priority. Below is a list of all of the natural wonders where Darwin can be activated to provide his maximum of 2,000 Science Science:

Another Industrial Era Great Scientist, James Young, provides two Eureka Eurekas from the Industrial or Modern Era. The most expensive Modern Era technologies cost 1250 Science Science each, so Young provides at most 1000 (1250 * 2 * 0.4) Science Science. Therefore, Charles Darwin is always a better choice if he can be activated with four adjacent natural wonder tiles. The exceptions are when playing as the Chinese or Babylonians or with the vanilla ruleset, in which case James Young can provide up to 1250 (1250 * 2 * 0.5) Science Science.

Finally, it is worth noting that activating Darwin adjacent to the Galápagos Islands will unlock an achievement.

Civilopedia entry[]

After a five-year voyage on the HMS Beagle, followed by years of thought, Charles Darwin published 'On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection' in 1859 AD, and set off a philosophical and religious firestorm that has yet to abate.

Born 1809, Charles Robert Darwin was the fifth of six children, the next in a long line of scientists. Since his mother Susanna had died when the boy was eight, there was no cushion to the sharp edges of learning in his life. At the age of 16, Charles entered Edinburgh College and choose to immerse himself in natural history. Following graduation from Christ’s College at Cambridge in 1831, his professor recommended Charles for a naturalist’s position aboard a British Admiralty survey ship, set to voyage around the world. Through direct observation and the collection of samples (birds, mice, and other small once-living creatures), especially on the isolated Galapagos archipelago, Darwin began to evolve a theory. Upon his return, he wrote upon his musings in the 'Journal of Researches.'

In 1858, Darwin introduced his revolutionary theory of evolution in a letter read at a meeting of the Linnean Society of London, a “learned” body devoted to the study of taxonomy. The next year, built on the basis of this paper, the great book was published. Although Charles wrote a number of other treatises – notably 'The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex,' which set off its own controversy among the Victorians – none were as evolutionary for civilization. Following a lifetime of research, Darwin died in London in April 1882.

Related achievements[]

Man on the Moon
Man on the Moon
Win a regular game with a Science victory on any difficulty with any leader with a captured Egyptian city -- having also activated Newton and Darwin
The R.E.M. song 'Man on the Moon' mentions Egypt, Newton, and Darwin in one verse.
The Origin of Species
The Origin of Species
Activate Darwin adjacent to the Galapagos Islands
On the Origin of Species is a book by Charles Darwin on the Galapagos Islands, and is considered the basis of evolutionary biology.

See also[]

Civilization VI Great People [edit]
AdmiralArtistEngineerGeneralComandante General1MerchantMusicianProphetScientistWriter
Great Works
Great Scientists
Abdus SalamAbu Al-Qasim Al-ZahrawiAlan TuringAlbert EinsteinAlfred NobelAryabhataCarl SaganCharles DarwinDmitri MendeleevEmilie Du ChateletErwin SchrödingerEuclidGalileo GalileiHildegard of BingenHypatiaIbn Khaldun1Isaac NewtonJames YoungJanaki AmmalMargaret Mead1Mary LeakeyOmar KhayyamStephanie KwolekZhang Heng1
1 Requires DLC
R&F-Only Added in the Rise and Fall expansion pack.
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