What inspired Darwin to form the theory of evolution?

Question

What inspired Darwin to form the theory of evolution?

Answer 1

It was an idea long before Darwin:

http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/e/evolut...

Also, his grandfather was published in the field:

http://ats.coloradocollege.edu/co100-04-...

Answer 2

I believe it was his trip to the Galopogos Islands where he saw finches.  They were different species of finches that he was studying and after analyzing the similairites and differences between them he came up with survival of the fittest and evolution.

Answer 3

the finches on the Galapagos Island because they had different type of beaks according to their nutrition.

Answer 4

http://www.aboutdarwin.com

Answer 5

cause he's a monkey.

Answer 6

Both his trip to the Galapagos Islands, and the religious fanatics of the day, who attempted to introduce superstitious beliefs into the realm of the true scientific method of analysis!

Answer 7

Probably he has had evolution himself.

Answer 8

His study of finches collected from the Galapogas islands. And he didn't form the "theory of evolution." He proposed the mechanism by which it works, natural selection.

The "theory of evolution" is now known as The Modern Synthesis and incorporates natural selection as one of the many mechanisms for how new species form from existing species.